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lchsh(1) General Commands Manual lchsh(1)

NAME

lchsh - Change login shell
 

SYNOPSIS

lchsh [ OPTION]... [user]
 

DESCRIPTION

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.
 

OPTIONS

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

EXIT STATUS

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

BUGS

lchsh ignores /etc/shells.
Sep 20 2004 libuser