Vi opens automatically when i login to a unix box

UNIX AIX
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When I login to a unix box using a putty session , I'm landed in a vi editor, instead of my home directory,I'm guessing instead of pointing me to my home directory, the system points me to /usr/bin/vi. As a result, everytime I log into the system I open up a vi editor and am in there. how do i overcome this problem. how do i fix it. Any help is appreciated

thanks
Ram

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I'm guessing you have /usr/bin/vi as your shell instead of something normal like /bin/ksh. If you have root access you could do :sh from vi to get to a command line then edit your entry in the password file. If you don't have root you'll need an admin to fix it for you.

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thank you, appreciate your time.

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It could possibly be an "exec vi" in your .profile/.login/.bashrc ( depends on the shell ). It may not be the /etc/passwd entry. You might want to check your initialization file to see if that is what is dumping you into the vi session.