[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#674040: Bug#674040: please change fallback shell handling

[Roger Leigh]

tags 674040 + pending
thanks

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 09:50:52PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> if a user's shell is not available in the chroot, schroot falls back to
> /bin/sh.
> 
> That's probably ok for scripted stuff, but as an interactive shell dash
> /bin/sh is often quite limited.
> 
> Please allow changing the default fallback shell in a config file, or
> just try bin/bash before bin/sh?

Fixed in git for 1.5.3.  From the docs:

       -s, --shell=shell
              Use shell as the login shell.  When running a login shell a num‐
              ber of potential shells will be considered, in this  order:  the
              command  in  the SHELL environment variable (if --preserve-envi‐
              ronment is used, or preserve-environment is enabled), the user's
              shell  in  the ‘passwd’ database, /bin/bash and finally /bin/sh.
              This option overrides this list, and will use the  shell  speci‐
              fied.   This  option also overrides the shell configuration key,
              if set.

       shell=shell
              When  running a login shell a number of potential shells will be
              considered, in this order: the command in the SHELL  environment
              variable  (if  --preserve-environment is used, or preserve-envi‐
              ronment is enabled), the user's shell in the ‘passwd’  database,
              /bin/bash  and  finally  /bin/sh.   This  setting overrides this
              list, and will use the shell specified.  It  may  be  overridden
              using the --shell option.

Prerelease version at http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/schroot-1.5.3.tar.xz
This also includes the groups warning fix.

Hope this meets your needs.


Regards,
Roger

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