[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#620898: Moving bash from essential/required to important

[Balint Reczey]

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