shells(5) — Linux manual page

shells(5)                  File Formats Manual                 shells(5)

NAME

       shells - pathnames of valid login shells

DESCRIPTION

       /etc/shells is a text file which contains the full pathnames of
       valid login shells.  This file is consulted by chsh(1) and
       available to be queried by other programs.

       Be aware that there are programs which consult this file to find
       out if a user is a normal user; for example, FTP daemons
       traditionally disallow access to users with shells not included
       in this file.

FILES

       /etc/shells

EXAMPLES

       /etc/shells may contain the following paths:

           /bin/sh
           /bin/bash
           /bin/csh

SEE ALSO

       chsh(1), getusershell(3), pam_shells(8)

COLOPHON

       This page is part of the man-pages (Linux kernel and C library
       user-space interface documentation) project.  Information about
       the project can be found at 
       ⟨https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/⟩.  If you have a bug report
       for this manual page, see
       ⟨https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/CONTRIBUTING⟩.
       This page was obtained from the tarball man-pages-6.9.1.tar.gz
       fetched from
       ⟨https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/⟩ on
       2024-06-26.  If you discover any rendering problems in this HTML
       version of the page, or you believe there is a better or more up-
       to-date source for the page, or you have corrections or
       improvements to the information in this COLOPHON (which is not
       part of the original manual page), send a mail to
       man-pages@man7.org

Linux man-pages 6.9.1          2024-05-02                      shells(5)

Pages that refer to this page: chsh(1), runuser(1), su(1), getusershell(3), pam_shells(8)

---