shells — pathnames of valid login shells
/etc/shells
is a text file
which contains the full pathnames of valid login shells. This
file is consulted by chsh(1) and available to be
queried by other programs.
Be aware that there are programs which consult this file to find out if a user is a normal user. E.g.: ftp daemons traditionally disallow access to users with shells not included in this file.
This page is part of release 3.24 of the Linux man-pages
project. A
description of the project, and information about reporting
bugs, can be found at
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michaelmoria.de), Thu May 20 20:45:48 MET DST 1993 This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The GNU General Public License's references to "object code" and "executables" are to be interpreted as the output of any document formatting or typesetting system, including intermediate and printed output. This manual is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this manual; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA. Modified Sat Jul 24 17:11:07 1993 by Rik Faith (faithcs.unc.edu) Modified Sun Nov 21 10:49:38 1993 by Michael Haardt Modified Sun Feb 26 15:09:15 1995 by Rik Faith (faithcs.unc.edu) |