NAME

shells − shell database

SYNOPSIS

/etc/shells

DESCRIPTION

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. 

FILES

/etc/shells lists shells on system

SEE ALSO

ftpd(1M), vipw(1B), getusershell(3C),

SunOS 5.5  —  Last change: 10 Aug 1994