From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:58:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] "git shell" won't work, need "git-shell"
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0808251955490.24820@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <48B29B2A.6000802@gnu.org>

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.

Ciao,
Dscho