Running KSH as your user shell

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3 total messages Started by Patrick Bohrer Wed, 18 Nov 1992 15:25

#1854

Author: Patrick Bohrer
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 15:25

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Quite a while ago I built ksh on the NeXT and set it up in
Terminal to be my default shell.  But when I try to set it up
on the system as my default shell, I can't login on the NeXT
(It tells my that I have no user shell and that it will run
/bin/ksh and ignore output.  I click OK and it gives me a login
window again.)  But I can rlogin from another machine.
So I copied /bin/ksh to /bin/sh and set my user
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.

Thanks in advance for any help,

--Pat
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Re: Running KSH as your user shell (answer)

#1856

Author: 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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Re: Running KSH as your user shell

#1861

Author: Kambiz Aghaiepour
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.

--Kambiz

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