1CHSH(1) Linux Reference Manual CHSH(1)
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6 chsh - change your login shell
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9 chsh [-s shell] [-l] [-u] [-v] [username]
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12 chsh is used to change your login shell. If a shell is not given on
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15 VALID SHELLS
16 chsh will accept the full pathname of any executable file on the sys‐
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23 -s, --shell shell
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36 login(1), passwd(5), shells(5)
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39 Salvatore Valente <svalente@mit.edu>
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42 The chsh command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available
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47chsh 7 October 1998 CHSH(1)