NAME
shells —
shell database
DESCRIPTION
The
shells file contains a list of the shells on the system.
It can be used in conjunction with the Hesiod domain ‘shells’, and
the NIS map ‘shells’, as controlled by
nsswitch.conf(5).
For each shell a single line should be present, consisting of the shell's path,
relative to root.
A hash (“#”) 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.
FILES
- /etc/shells
- The shells file resides in
/etc.
SEE ALSO
chsh(1),
getusershell(3),
nsswitch.conf(5)
HISTORY
The
shells file format appeared in
4.3BSD-Tahoe.
The Hesiod and NIS support first appeared in
NetBSD
1.4.