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Manual Reference Pages  - lchsh (1)

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NAME

lchsh - Change login shell

CONTENTS

Synopsis
Description
Options
Exit Status
Bugs

lchsh [OPTION]... [user]

Displays and allows changing login shell of user.

If the user argument is not provided, username of the invoking user is used; the user argument is ignored if lchsh is run set-uid to a different user.

Entering an empty string (by pressing Enter) at the "New Shell" prompt is interpreted as accepting the current value.

-i, --interactive
	Ask all questions when connecting to the user database, even if default answers are set up in libuser configuration.

The exit status is 0 on success, 1 on error.

lchsh ignores /etc/shells.

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