UPDATE-SHELLS(8)

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🎀 update-shells ✨ (section 8) 🎀

Okay so update-shells is the manual page for your login shell list, and it's lowkey iconic 💅

✨ NAME ✨

update-shells - update the list of valid login shells 🐚

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

update-shells [options]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay bestie, so update-shells goes hunting for every shell that packages have dropped into /usr/share/debianutils/shells.d 🕵️‍♀️ and then refreshes /etc/shells so it includes any newly added shells and drops the ones that got removed. 🔥 It's giving organized. To keep track of what you (the admin) changed by hand, it peeks at a state file at /var/lib/shells.state . No cap, that's how it stays so smart 🧠

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

  • --no-act — Preview mode, babe! It won't actually touch /etc/shells 👀
  • --root ROOT — Want to work inside a chroot instead? Point it at ROOT 🌳 If you don't say anything, it just uses whatever the DPKG_ROOT environment variable is set to 💜
  • --verbose — Lowkey wants to tell you everything 📣 It prints the shells being added or removed as it goes ✨

📂 FILES 📂

/etc/shells, /var/lib/shells.state, and /usr/share/debianutils/shells.d are the main files in this whole operation 🧚

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

shells(5) 💅

Manual page UPDATE-SHELLS(8), from the System Manager's Manual, last updated 28 Jun 2021. Stay iconic out there, bestie 🫶💖

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