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update-shells

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update the list of valid login shells

Administration and privileged commands3 optionsdebianutils 5.23.2
update-shells [options]

Options

3
--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.

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 .

FILES

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

See also

shells(5)