Re: [PATCH] "git shell" won't work, need "git-shell"

2008/8/25 Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref]:

Hi,

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

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That would involve you actually finding out what's happening, though.

He said so:

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test:x:1001:1001:,,,:/home/test:/usr/bin/git shell

just makes ssh loop asking for a password, logging

"User test not allowed because shell /usr/bin/git shell does not exist"

Okay, so this means that you cannot pass arguments to the login shell.
Makes me wonder... I had the impression that bash was called with --login.

When you login, a '-' is prepended in argv[0], ie, bash checks if it's called
"-bash". This is documented in man bash, but I couldn't find it in man login
or man agetty, not sure where else it might be written down.

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Mikael Magnusson