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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.

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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
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
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