Re: [RFC] /etc/shells management (fish, mksh, posh, tcsh, zsh)

[Chris Sutcliffe <ir0nh34d@gmail.com>]

On 13 May 2016 at 06:29, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>> On 2016-05-11 14:06, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>> > On 2016-05-11 12:09, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>> >>> Am 10.05.2016 um 20:19 schrieb Andrew Schulman:
>> >>>> Achim, can you please add /bin/fish and /usr/bin/fish to /etc/shells in
>> >>>> base-files?
>> >>>
>> AFAICS this should be a two-step process.
>>
>> 1) base-files' default /etc/shells should contain only the shells in a
>> Base install, namely:
>>
>> /bin/sh
>> /bin/ash
>> /bin/bash
>> /bin/dash
>> /usr/bin/sh
>> /usr/bin/ash
>> /usr/bin/bash
>> /usr/bin/dash
>> /sbin/nologin
>
> Yep.
>
>> 2) Then all non-Base shells, namely:
>>
>> fish                                         Andrew Schulman
>> mksh                                         Chris Sutcliffe
>> posh                                         Jari Aalto
>> tcsh                                         Corinna Vinschen
>> zsh                                          Peter A. Castro
>>
>> will bump release adding an update_etc_shells call, per the attached
>> patch, with the path of their shell(s).
>
> Agreed.

I'm fine with this approach as well.

Thanks,

Chris

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Chris Sutcliffe