| SHELLS(5) | File Formats Manual | SHELLS(5) |
shells — shell
database
The shells file contains a list of valid
shells available on the system. A shell is a command line interpreter that
reads user input and executes commands. 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 chpass(1)
program will not let regular users change their default shell to one not
listed in the shells file. The
ftpd(8) daemon denies access to
users who are not using one of the listed shells.
The shells file format appeared in
4.3BSD-Tahoe.
| May 31, 2007 | OpenBSD-6.8 |