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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)
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