update-shells8
Update the list of valid login shells
Usage
update-shells [options]
Overview
update-shells locates the shells provided by packages from /usr/share/debianutils/shells.d and updates /etc/shells with newly added or removed shells. To track changes made by the administrator, it consults a state file in /var/lib/shells.state .
Options
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--no-act -
Do not actually perform the changes to /etc/shells .
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--root -
ROOT
Operate on a chroot at ROOT . Defaults to the value of the environment variable DPKG_ROOT .
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--verbose -
Print the shells that are being added or removed.
Files
/etc/shells /var/lib/shells.state /usr/share/debianutils/shells.d
Releases
Unchanged in 2 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm).