[5725] in Moira
Re: Re: Patch to chsh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Mon Jun 21 20:23:41 2010
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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:23:28 -0400
From: Evan Broder <evan@ebroder.net>
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To: "Liz A. Denys" <lizdenys@MIT.EDU>
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Hi Garry, et al. -
I know you all are busy, but have you had a chance to look at this?
Thanks,
- Evan
On 4/24/10 10:36 PM, Liz A. Denys wrote:
> I fixed sysconfdir in both locations. The fixed patch is attached.
>
> -Liz
>
> --
> Liz A. Denys
> lizdenys@mit.edu
>
> On Sat, 24 Apr 2010, Liz A. Denys wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Debathena is running into issues where installing additional shells
>> changes /etc/shells in ways that aren't necessarily consistent across
>> machines. As /etc/shells is the list of shells on a single machine,
>> Athena machines are not all guaranteed to have the shells listed in
>> /etc/shells. However, the list of shells the patch creates in
>> /etc/shells.moira are guaranteed to be on all Athena machines.
>>
>> The attached patch changes how chsh.moira picks its list of
>> acceptable shells. The patch has creates /etc/shells.moira to be
>> checked before /etc/shells because /etc/shells is not a static list.
>>
>> More information can be found at
>> http://debathena.mit.edu/trac/ticket/556.
>>
>> -Liz Denys
>>
>> --
>> Liz A. Denys
>> lizdenys@mit.edu
