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42 file contains a list of valid shells available on the system.
43 A shell is a command line interpreter that reads user input and executes
45 For each shell a single line should be present, consisting of the
46 shell's path, relative to root.
50 indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent
51 characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by the
52 routines which search the file.
53 Blank lines are also ignored.
57 program will not let regular users change their default shell to one not
63 daemon denies access to users who are not using one of the listed shells.
65 .Bl -tag -width /etc/shells -compact
76 file format appeared in