Shell type on trusted system

[Ashish Jain]

If I specify a non defualt shell for a login account on my HPUX 11.0 trusted system, I get an error saying this shell not allowed. Any clues where can I make an entry for this shell?

[Donald Kok]

There is a a file /etc/shells. In this file you have to mention al shells you like to use in /etc/passwd or manually, like

/sbin/sh
usr/bin/ksh
.
.

Good luck
Donald

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

...and one word of caution: *never* change the default shell for 'root' from '/sbin/sh'. If you do, you will end up with an unbootable system.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Ashish Jain]

Donald this doesn't work on atrusted system.

thnx

[Steve Steel]

Hi

Man Shells

shells(4) shells(4)

NAME
shells - list of allowed login shells

SYNOPSIS
/etc/shells

DESCRIPTION
/etc/shells is an ASCII file containing a list of legal shells on the
system. Each shell is listed in the file by its absolute path name.

Lines or portions of lines beginning with # are assumed to be comments
and are ignored. Blank lines are also ignored.



Steve Steel

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

If 'etc/shells' doesn't exist, or isn't readable, then the following list of valid shells is assumed:

/sbin/sh
/usr/bin/sh
/usr/bin/rsh
/usr/bin/ksh
/usr/bin/rksh
/usr/bin/csh
/usr/bin/keysh

This is documented in 'man 3 getusershell'.

Therefore, create an /etc/shells file. Make its permissions 444 owned by 'root'. Add the above standard shells and add your chosen shell to the list.

Regards!

...JRF...