UPDATE-SHELLS

Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: 28 Jun 2021
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NAME

update-shells - update the list of valid login shells  

SYNOPSIS

update-shells [options]  

DESCRIPTION

update-shells locates the shells provided by packages from /usr/share/debianutils/shells.d and updates /etc/shells with newly added or removed shells. To track changes made by the administrator, it consults a state file in /var/lib/shells.state .  

OPTIONS

--no-act
Do not actually perform the changes to /etc/shells .
--root
ROOT

Operate on a chroot at ROOT . Defaults to the value of the environment variable DPKG_ROOT .

--verbose
Print the shells that are being added or removed.
 

FILES

/etc/shells /var/lib/shells.state /usr/share/debianutils/shells.d  

SEE ALSO

shells(5)


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
FILES
SEE ALSO

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