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lchsh(1) General Commands Manual lchsh(1)

NAME

lchsh - Change login shell

SYNOPSIS

lchsh [OPTION]... [user]

DESCRIPTION

Displays and allows changing login shell of user.

If the user argument is not provided, username of the invoking user is used; the user argument is ignored if lchsh is run set-uid to a different user.

Entering an empty string (by pressing Enter) at the "New Shell" prompt is interpreted as accepting the current value.

OPTIONS

Ask all questions when connecting to the user database, even if default answers are set up in libuser configuration.

EXIT STATUS

The exit status is 0 on success, 1 on error.

BUGS

lchsh ignores /etc/shells.

Sep 20 2004 libuser