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.