[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#924505: bash: set shell to /bin/sh on removal

[Chris Hofstaedtler]

* Matthias Klose <doko at debian.org> [190903 17:37]:
> On 02.09.19 21:14, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
> > Subject: [PATCH] Change shells of users from /bin/bash to /bin/sh on removal
> 
> sorry for joining in lately into this game, but I didn't want to do that in
> parallel with my other Debian tasks.
> 
> I don't like the idea of automatic shell rewriting, [..]
> For user accounts it potentially creates broken
> init files, because the user's init files might use bashisms. The same might
> be true for system accounts, although you can manually check if these
> accounts use bashisms.  Nobody is hurt by having bash installed, you can
> avoid that for new installations, so this change doesn't seem to have any
> benefit which out weights the regression potential.  There also isn't any
> precedence for other shells doing that.

I also don't understand what the point of the whole exercise is;
once you have user accounts that use bash, they should just stay as
they were.
For new systems, defaulting to dash might be useful.

Cheers,
Chris