Re: Running KSH as your user shell (answer)

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From: Brian K. Boonstra
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:03

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In article <1992Nov18.152522.11535@oakhill.sps.mot.com> patrick@norm (Patrick  
Bohrer) writes:
> 
> shell to /bin/sh and everything works OK (albeit kludgy).  Does
> anyone know how to specify ksh as a valid shell.  I appears that
> loginwindow compares the name of your shell against some list of 
> known user shells before it starts up the Workspace Manager
> but I don't know where the list is.
> 

The list is in /etc/shells. Mine looks like this:

	 # List of acceptable shells for chsh/passwd -s
	 # Ftpd will not allow users to connect who do not have one of these shells
	 #
	 /bin/sh
	 /bin/csh
	 /usr/local/bin/tcsh
 

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