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

["Mikael Magnusson" <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>]

2008/8/25 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx>:
> 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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