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 differ‐
       ent 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.



libuser                           Sep 20 2004                         lchsh(1)