[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#620898: Moving bash from essential/required to important
Balint Reczey
balint at balintreczey.hu
Sat Jan 21 19:54:54 UTC 2017
Control: tags -1 confirmed
Hi,
On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 21:14:46 -0500 Troy Benjegerdes <hozer at hozed.org> wrote:
> So can we have a prerm script for bash that sets the root
> shell back to /bin/sh, or at least asks the admin if they want
> zsh or tcsh, and warns about any other users?
>
> Any of this stuff of trying to have login figure out the
> right shell seems like a new remote exploit in the making.
It is too late for making changes related to this bug in Stretch. :-(
In the next cycle we will evaluate switching to login implementatiln in
util-linux per #833256. This bug may be solved by the switch or later in
util-linux.
Cheers,
Balint
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