4 thoughts on “chsh Command

  1. sindhu@sindhu-eeepc:~chsh –list-shells
    chsh: unrecognized option ‘–list-shells’
    Usage: chsh [options] [LOGIN]

    Options:
    -h, –help display this help message and exit
    -s, –shell SHELL new login shell for the user account

    sindhu@sindhu-eeepc:~

    1. $ chsh --list-shells
      /bin/sh
      /bin/bash
      /sbin/nologin
      /bin/zsh
      
      $ chsh --help
      Usage: chsh [ -s shell ] [ --list-shells ] [ --help ] [ --version ]
             [ username ]
      

      I am on Fedora 8 – which distro are you using?

  2. That explains it. I just checked the command in Xbuntu – it has a different chsh command too. I am not sure why fedora is different. Sorry about the confusion.

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