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

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MMMikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
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Aug 25, 2008, 18:25 UTC
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2008/8/25 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>:
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> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
>> > That would involve you actually finding out what's happening, though.
>>
>> He said so:
>>
>> > 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.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson
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Message 9 of 28 in “"git shell" won't work, need "git-shell"”
  1. "git shell" won't work, need "git-shell"Tommi Virtanen, Aug 24, 2008
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 24, 2008
  3. Tommi VirtanenAug 24, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 24, 2008
  5. Tommi VirtanenAug 24, 2008
  6. Johannes SchindelinAug 25, 2008
  7. Paolo BonziniAug 25, 2008
  8. Johannes SchindelinAug 25, 2008
  9. Mikael MagnussonAug 25, 2008
  10. Johannes SchindelinAug 25, 2008
  11. Johannes SchindelinAug 25, 2008
  12. 1/2 git wrapper: Make while loop more reader-friendlyJohannes Schindelin, Aug 25, 2008
  13. 2/2 git wrapper: execute git-shell when argv[1] is '-c'Johannes Schindelin, Aug 25, 2008
  14. Tommi VirtanenAug 25, 2008
  15. Johannes SchindelinAug 25, 2008
  16. Tommi VirtanenAug 25, 2008
  17. Johannes SchindelinAug 26, 2008
  18. Matthieu MoyAug 26, 2008
  19. Junio C HamanoAug 26, 2008
  20. Mike RalphsonAug 26, 2008
  21. Petr BaudisAug 25, 2008
  22. Dmitry PotapovAug 25, 2008
  23. Tommi VirtanenAug 25, 2008
  24. Dmitry PotapovAug 25, 2008
  25. Johannes SchindelinAug 25, 2008
  26. Dmitry PotapovAug 25, 2008
  27. Mike HommeyAug 25, 2008
  28. Dmitry V. LevinOct 28, 2008

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