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File Formatsshells(4)


NAME

 shells - shell database

SYNOPSIS

 
/etc/shells

DESCRIPTION

 

The shells file contains a list of the shells on the system. Applications use this file to determine whether a shell is valid. See getusershell(3C). For each shell a single line should be present, consisting of the shell's path, relative to root.

A hash mark (#) indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by the routines which search the file. Blank lines are also ignored.

The following default shells are used by utilities: /bin/bash, /bin/csh, /bin/jsh, /bin/ksh, /bin/pfcsh, /bin/pfksh, /bin/pfsh, /bin/sh, /bin/tcsh, /bin/zsh, /sbin/jsh, /sbin/sh, /usr/bin/bash, /usr/bin/csh, /usr/bin/jsh, /usr/bin/ksh, /usr/bin/pfcsh, /usr/bin/pfksh, /usr/bin/pfsh, and /usr/bin/sh, /usr/bin/tcsh, /usr/bin/zsh. Note that /etc/shells overrides the default list.

Invalid shells in /etc/shells may cause unexpected behavior (such as being unable to log in by way of ftp(1)).

FILES

 
/etc/shells
lists shells on system

SEE ALSO

 

vipw(1B), ftpd(1M), sendmail(1M), getusershell(3C), aliases(4)


SunOS 5.9Go To TopLast Changed 4 Jun 2001

 
      
      
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