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FS#35613 - mksh: put it back to /bin/mksh and into /etc/shells

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Thorsten Glaser (mirabilos) - Monday, 03 June 2013, 12:56 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Monday, 03 June 2013, 13:01 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

I am upstream of mksh and was just pointed on IRC to this link:
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/mksh&id=764fb86e3009cfcf4e402af73d22a28c83fc237f

Please put mksh back into /bin because not doing that *will* break user scripts and a lot more, due to use of a shebang or as user shell. Also do note that POSIX requires /bin/ed to work if ed is installed (which is the default mksh history editor *and* used during the testsuite).

Removing /bin/mksh from /etc/shells will additionally prevent users (including root, in some cases) from logging into the system.
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Monday, 03 June 2013, 13:01 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Monday, 03 June 2013, 13:01 GMT
That package puts /bin/mksh into /etc/shells. It only removes it when mksh is removed. Because /bin -> usr/bin, the #!/bin/mksh shebang works as does /bin/ed.

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