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jeffvb9

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Can someone please tell me the significance of a login shell. I see that I can set up users with different login shells and am unfamiliar with what they mean or do. Can someone please explain?

thanks in advance.
 
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The shell is the program that you enter when you login, which is where you execute all your commands and such. //Daniel
 
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Different shells will look different and require different commands to accomplish the same thing. Kind of like the difference between a dos prompt and a bash linux prompt. They both do basically the same things, but they look and feel different.

Bash would be the most popular in the linux world, probably due to the fact it is the default.
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