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Article #1861Re: Running KSH as your user shell
From: Kambiz Aghaiepour
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:28
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:28
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patrick@norm writes:
> 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.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help,
This is probably going to show up as the 20th followup answer to this
question, but here goes.
The list is kept in /etc/shells. If the file does not exists, then only
/bin/sh and /bin/csh are accepted. Look at /usr/local/bin/bash if you're
interested in alternative shells.
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