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What is the difference between login shell and interactive shell?
interactive login shell: You log into a remote computer via, for example ssh . Alternatively, you drop to a tty on your local machine ( Ctrl + Alt + F1 ) and log in there. interactive non-login shell: Open a new terminal. non-interactive non-login shell: Run a script.
What does interactive login mean?
Interactive login is authentication to a computer through the usage of their local user account or by their domain account, usually by pressing the CTRL+ALT+DEL keys (on a Windows machine). When the user is logged in, Windows will run applications on behalf of the user and the user can interact with those applications.
What is interactive non login shells?
A non-interactive shell is a shell that can not interact with the user. It’s most often run from a script or similar. This means that . bashrc and . profile are not executed.
How do I turn off interactive login?
What you can do is remove the “Users” group from the ‘local login’ privilege, then add back the rest of the people. The settings are in Group Policy, Machine Settings, Security Settings, Local Policies, User Rights, Log On Locally.
How to create a non-interactive login shell?
Another way to get a non-interactive login shell is to log in remotely with a command passed through standard input which is not a terminal, e.g. ssh example.com
What’s the difference between non-login and non-interactive Bash?
When a shell script is run, it is executed in a non-login, non-interactive shell. Depending on how the session is launched, the bash shell reads several configuration files. One difference between distinct sessions is whether the shell is being invoked as non-login or as a login session.
When to use Bash as a login shell?
“When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-interactive shell with the –login option, it first reads and executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists.
What’s the difference between interactive and non-interactive shell?
An interactive (bash) shell executes the file .bashrc so you have to put any relevant variables or settings in this file. A non-interactive shell is a shell that can not interact with the user. It’s most often run from a script or similar.