Bug#3139: /etc/shells bug

[bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)]

Package: passwd
From: Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu>

If this has already been fixed, then please tell me:

The chsh command has a list of accepted shells:

debian% chsh -l
/bin/bash
/bin/csh
/bin/sh
/usr/bin/es
/usr/bin/ksh
/usr/bin/rc
/usr/bin/tcsh
/usr/bin/zsh

However, ksh on my 1.1 system is in /bin instead
of /usr/bin.  This prevents a user from changing their own
shell to ksh because the chsh command requires the
user to choose from the above list.

This is either a bug in passwd which provides chsh, or it
is a bug in pdksh which provides ksh.  I only have bash, csh,
tcsh, and ksh installed, so I don't know if any other shells
such as zsh have the same problem.

This came up because one user on my machine wants ksh.  I will
report this as a bug unless I get feedback that it is already
resolved.

Thanks. Syrus.

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Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu>    UCSD Physics Dept.

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