Unable to activate Zsh installed by MacPorts

Question

I put unsuccessfully Zsh installed by MacPorts as my login shell by setting the following path to Settings

/opt/local/bin/zsh

I put it to the Advanced options at the User accounts too. I get the following error alt text http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/175564/macportsError.png

I put the following path unsuccessfully to Settings

/opt/local/var/macports/software/zsh/4.2.7_0+mp_completion

I get the following error when I start my shell again

login: /opt/local/var/macports/software/zsh/4.2.7_0+mp_completion: Permission denied

[Process completed]

How can you activate your Zsh as a login shell?

Answer 1

As Norbert says, I think the answer is in /etc/shells. Mine has this:

# List of acceptable shells for chpass(1).
# Ftpd will not allow users to connect who are not using
# one of these shells.

/bin/bash
/bin/csh
/bin/ksh
/bin/sh
/bin/tcsh
/bin/zsh

Add /opt/local/bin/zsh to that list, and you should be fine. You should then be able to change the shell (individually for each user) using chsh.