SHELLS(5) File Formats and Configurations SHELLS(5)
NAME
shells - shell database
SYNOPSIS
/etc/shellsDESCRIPTION
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/ksh93,
/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/ksh93,
/usr/bin/pfcsh,
/usr/bin/pfksh,
/usr/bin/pfsh, and
/usr/bin/sh,
/usr/bin/tcsh,
/usr/bin/zsh, and
/usr/sfw/bin/zsh.
/etc/shells overrides the default list.
Invalid shells in
/etc/shells could cause unexpected behavior, such
as being unable to log in by way of
ftp(1).
FILES
/etc/shells list of shells on system
SEE ALSO
vipw(1B),
getusershell(3C),
aliases(5),
ftpd(8),
sendmail(8) November 20, 2007 SHELLS(5)
