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Shells in SAM

Laszlo Csizmadia — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 15:02:18 GMT

Could anybody tell me where does the list of available shell come from in SAM? I mean:
If a new user is added you can choose a shell from a list in SAM. But this list has nothig to do with e.g /etc/shells. Where does the list come from than? I just want to add few others to able to set in SAM.
Thanks in advance.

Re: Shells in SAM

S.K. Chan — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 15:30:03 GMT

I believe it's from the file /usr/sam/lib/C/ug.ut.ui and if you take a look closely at that file you would see a list of shells that appears in SAM useradd pull down menu ..
....
choices {
label "Start-Up Program Choices"
help "UGUTtd.CreatNonTrstUsrTmplt.sdl:Choices+StartProgList"
...
data "/usr/bin/sh"
"/usr/bin/csh"
"/usr/bin/ksh"
"/usr/bin/rsh"
"/usr/bin/rksh"
"/usr/bin/keysh"
..........

Re: Shells in SAM

Laszlo Csizmadia — Thu, 03 Apr 2003 11:12:05 GMT

Although I more than sure that's the config file to modify it still not works. BTW in /usr/sam/lib/C/ug.ut.ui there are four section around shells:
ug_ut_def_sup (3 similar section, around lines 258, 1748, 2793) and ug_ut_mod_sup.
I have added to all four section the "/usr/local/bin/bash" but still doesn't show up in SAM.
Sholud be something initialized or a daemon restarted? How? Which?

Any help will be appreciated.

Re: Shells in SAM

Steve Steel — Thu, 03 Apr 2003 11:25:01 GMT

Hi

I do not think it will work lilke that anyway.

I did a couple of tests and

1).You can type the required shell in SAM's "add user" screen,

or

2)You could create a users template with the shell:

Like this

SAM
user area, use
Action/User Templates/Create to create the template.In it you can define your desired shell and when you want todo a user create using that shell/template,
SAM
user area, use Action/User Templates/Select to select template you want.

Then use Action/Add to add a user using that template.

Steve Steel