shells.4 (2010 09)

shells(4) shells(4)

NAME

shells - list of allowed login shells

SYNOPSIS

/etc/shells

DESCRIPTION

/etc/shells is an ASCII ﬁle containing a list of legal shells on the system. Each shell is listed in the

ﬁle by its absolute path name.

Lines or portions of lines beginning with

# are assumed to be comments and are ignored. Blank lines

are also ignored.

AUTHOR

shells was developed by HP and the University of California, Berkeley.

FILES

/etc/shells

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shells(4) shells(4) NAME shells - list of allowed login shells SYNOPSIS /etc/shells DESCRIPTION /etc/shells is an ASCII file containing a list of legal shells on the system. Each shell is listed in the file by its absolute path name. Lines or portions of lines beginning with # are assumed to be comments and are ignored. Blank lines are also ignored. AUTHOR shells was developed by HP and the University of California, Berkeley. FILES /etc/shells SEE ALSO chsh(1), ftpd(1M), getusershell(3C).
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(Notes) A (Notes) sA 2 Hewlett-Packard Company −1− HP-UX 11i Version 3: September 2010