1.\" Copyright (c) 1986, 1991, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 13.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 14.\" without specific prior written permission. 15.\" 16.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 17.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 18.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 19.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 20.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 21.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 22.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 23.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 24.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 25.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 26.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 27.\" 28.\" @(#)shells.5 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 29.\" $FreeBSD: src/share/man/man5/shells.5,v 1.3.2.2 2001/08/17 13:08:47 ru Exp $ 30.\" $DragonFly: src/share/man/man5/shells.5,v 1.2 2003/06/17 04:37:00 dillon Exp $ 31.\" 32.Dd June 5, 1993 33.Dt SHELLS 5 34.Os 35.Sh NAME 36.Nm shells 37.Nd shell database 38.Sh DESCRIPTION 39The 40.Nm 41file contains a list of the shells on the system. 42For each shell a single line should be present, consisting of the 43shell's path, relative to root. 44.Pp 45A hash mark (``#'') indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent 46characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by the 47routines which search the file. 48Blank lines are also ignored. 49.Sh FILES 50.Bl -tag -width /etc/shells -compact 51.It Pa /etc/shells 52The 53.Nm 54file resides in 55.Pa /etc . 56.El 57.Sh SEE ALSO 58.Xr getusershell 3 59.Sh HISTORY 60The 61.Nm 62file format appeared in 63.Bx 4.3 tahoe . 64