MehtaJasmin
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Red Hat Enterpise LInux Shell Maintenance
I know that the default shell on Linux is bash but if I want to install ksh93 on a server what extra maintenance would I have to do to maintain that shell then if I didnt have it installed ?
Im asking from a sys admin point of view. What stresses does/will it cause.
Im asking from a sys admin point of view. What stresses does/will it cause.
As admin, it should not cause any extra headaches. It is secure and good enough. Every user can select a shell as a login shell and they can also change a shell without changing any setting
For example issue command
ksh
to work in Korn shell
For example issue command
ksh
to work in Korn shell
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@xterm: This is not funny. Would you please leave me alone?
Ok, here it goes.
ksh93 is installed by default. You should have it
Issue command
which ksh
To change a user's login shell issue command
chsh
as a common user.
Or issue command
usermod -s /bin/ksh <USERID>
as admin