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UPDATE-SHELLS(8)                       System Manager's Manual                      UPDATE-SHELLS(8)

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

SYNOPSIS
       update-shells [options]

DESCRIPTION
       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 ad‐
       ministrator, it consults a state file in /var/lib/shells.state .

OPTIONS
       --no-act
              Do not actually perform the changes to /etc/shells .

       --root ROOT

              Operate on a chroot at ROOT .  Defaults to  the  value  of  the  environment  variable
              DPKG_ROOT .

       --verbose
              Print the shells that are being added or removed.

FILES
       /etc/shells /var/lib/shells.state /usr/share/debianutils/shells.d

SEE ALSO
       shells(5)

                                             28 Jun 2021                            UPDATE-SHELLS(8)