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- From: kickaha@siddhartha.math.lsa.umich.edu (Brian K. Boonstra)
- Subject: Re: Running KSH as your user shell (answer)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.180312.7674@lsa.umich.edu>
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- Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept
- References: <1992Nov18.152522.11535@oakhill.sps.mot.com>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:03:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.152522.11535@oakhill.sps.mot.com> patrick@norm (Patrick
- Bohrer) writes:
- >
- > shell to /bin/sh and everything works OK (albeit kludgy). Does
- > anyone know how to specify ksh as a valid shell. I appears that
- > loginwindow compares the name of your shell against some list of
- > known user shells before it starts up the Workspace Manager
- > but I don't know where the list is.
- >
-
- The list is in /etc/shells. Mine looks like this:
-
- # List of acceptable shells for chsh/passwd -s
- # Ftpd will not allow users to connect who do not have one of these shells
- #
- /bin/sh
- /bin/csh
- /usr/local/bin/tcsh
-
-
- --
- Brian K. Boonstra (313) 994-0014,764-6046 kickaha@umich.edu
-
- "My strength is as the strength of ten because my code is pure."
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