remove-shell(8)

remove-shell8

Remove shells from the list of valid login shells

Usage

remove-shell shellname [shellname ...]

Overview

remove-shell operates on the temporary files /etc/shells.tmp and /etc/shells.tmp2 to remove the given shells from the list of valid login shells, and copy the result back to /etc/shells.

Environment

DPKG_ROOT

specifies the base path under which /etc/shells resides.

Releases

10 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 4.0–10
  2. 11
  3. 12
  4. 13

From debianutils 5.23.2 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.