Re: usrmerge breaks POSIX
On 2024-02-15 09:00:57 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I think the obvious solution is to ensure that both the /bin and /usr/bin
> paths for mksh are registered in /etc/shells. In other words, I think we
> have a missing usrmerge-related transition here that we should just fix.
> I'm copying Thorsten on this message in case he hasn't noticed this
> thread, but if I were you I'd just file a bug against mksh asking for the
> /usr/bin paths to also be added to /etc/shells to match the new behavior
> of add-shell.
I had reported a bug:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1063905
but Thorsten closed it because
|The OP’s $SHELL should not be set to /usr/bin/bash as that
|value is not in /etc/shells and not its canonical path in
|the first place.
(The issue was initially detected with bash, which gave bug 817168.)
But having a requirement on what pathnames $SHELL may contain (in the
case a same shell can be referenced by several pathnames, e.g. due to
the /bin -> /usr/bin symbolic link) is not acceptable. Hence my post
about this.
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