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Re: usrmerge breaks POSIX



Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> writes:

> Right… and why does pkexec check against /etc/shells?

pkexec checks against /etc/shells because this is the traditional way to
determine whether the user is in a restricted shell, and pkexec is
essentially a type of sudo and should be unavailable to anyone who is
using a restricted shell.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)              <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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