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== Shells ==

The shell is the command line interpreter. Using the right commands, permissions and tools allows the user to administer the system, even when the user isn't there!

Redhats default shell is bash the bourne again shell.

== Shell Preinstalled on RHEL ==

* bash
* dash
* tcsh
* zsh

== Change a users default shell ==

To change the default shell for a user edit /etc/passwd. The last column of each user defines which shell starts when a user logs in to the system.

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michael:x:511:514::/home/michael:/bin/bash
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