Is it possible for a user to install their own shell? My host provider
won't install bash (they only have sh) and I'm too used to the
tab-completion aspect of bash.

I think i found the right files on freebsd
(ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/shells/bash2/).
this is for a FreeBSD 4.6 machine.

The Good Goku <g...@socal.rr.com> revealed the following:

A user can choose which installed shell they want to use (whatever is listed
in /etc/shells should be available), but cannot install a shell. Only
superuser or root can install shells.

You can run chsh to change your shell only or chpass to change the shell as
well as other data pertaining to the user.

Regards,
Oggie
--
"Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity
doth best discover virtue." - Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

comp.unix.bsd.freebsd is not widely propagated, so you won't
necessarily get much help here.
See http://www.freebsd.org/support.html for better ideas...
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It's possible to install it, but you can't get it to be the login
shell.  It might be easier to just adapt to the tab-completion in the
FreeBSD /bin/sh, though.  It's not *that* much different.

For a private, user-compiled version, it's probably just as easy to
build it directly from the sources.