- The Solaris platform is a very secure platform and it requires the user to enter his login information prior to starting any work in the operating system. Before a user login to his account the screen would show the following prompt:
hostname console login: Ram
- On pressing return the user is asked to enter the password for his account. In order to prevent the password from being detected by someone else the system does not show the password on the display screen. When a user issues a command to the operating system via the terminal or the GUI the user is actually providing the information to the command interpretation system also known as the shell. The shell takes all the user inputs and makes sure they are executed properly by the OS. The default shell for Solaris system is the Bourne shell.
There are various other shells supported by Solaris such as:
- GNU Bourne shell
- C shell
- Korn shell etc.
When the user initially logs into the system and the sees the command prompt , it means that the shell program has been initiated. This shell is called the login shell.
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