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Bug#619431: marked as done (release-notes: Upgrading sh from bash to dash requires changes to /etc/passwd.)

Your message dated Sat, 30 Mar 2013 14:15:30 -0700
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and subject line Re: Bug#619431: release-notes: Upgrading sh from bash to dash requires changes to /etc/passwd.
has caused the Debian Bug report #619431,
regarding release-notes: Upgrading sh from bash to dash requires changes to /etc/passwd.
to be marked as done.

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Package: release-notes
Severity: minor

Hi,

It's bit a little while since I did the upgrade to sqeeuze in question
so I'm unclear on the details at the moment.  I'll do another soon
and may be able to report more.

In any case after installing dash and using it as the default sh
I found that a number of users in /etc/passwd had /bin/sh as their
shell.  Needless to say this did not go over well as all the bash
features like tab completion went away.

The squeeze release notes remark on the switch of sh from bash to
dash.  This section should probably also include a reminder to
check that meatspace user's shells are /bin/bash.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Control: tags -1 wontfix

On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 04:27:44PM -0400, David Prévot wrote:
> Control: tags -1 moreinfo

> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 05:59:03PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> > On 03/28/2011 05:46:05 PM, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 03:26:26PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote:

> > > > The squeeze release notes remark on the switch of sh from bash to
> > > > dash.  This section should probably also include a reminder to
> > > > check that meatspace user's shells are /bin/bash.

> Is this issue still relevant for Wheezy? I suspect it isn’t and advise
> the RN wizard to close it (I may do so myself next time I come across
> this bug report unless more information is provided).

It's specific to the squeeze upgrade; if you're upgrading from squeeze to
wheezy, you've either already dealt with this or don't care.

(Setting a user's shell to /bin/sh instead of /bin/bash was wrong before the
switch to dash anyway, and was never done by default, so this was a
low-priority issue to document.)

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