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Title: Why Eliminate bash?
Post by: jimgoode on March 25, 2009, 10:38:06 PM

I am upgrading from 6.0.1-01 to 7.4, but also experimented with a 7.4 clean install. One thing I noticed on the clean install was that /bin/bash, among other shells, had been eliminated.

Does anyone know why? How does one activate a non-root user for ssh access?

Thanks,
Jim

Title: Re: Why Eliminate bash?
Post by: Stefano on March 25, 2009, 10:59:02 PM

jimgoode:

if you feel something is wrong, please fill a bug in bugzilla.

anyway, you can change user's shell via db commands; search the wiki.

thank you
ciao
Stefano

Title: Re: Why Eliminate bash?
Post by: uniqsys on March 25, 2009, 11:02:42 PM

Quote from: jimgoode on March 25, 2009, 10:38:06 PM

I am upgrading from 6.0.1-01 to 7.4, but also experimented with a 7.4 clean install. One thing I noticed on the clean install was that /bin/bash, among other shells, had been eliminated.

Does anyone know why?

Security.  That should be obvious.

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How does one activate a non-root user for ssh access?

Although not recommended there is a way around it.  Creating links and editing passwd.  Search the forum, I think this has been answered in detail before.

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Thanks,
Jim

You're welcome!

Title: Re: Why Eliminate bash?
Post by: CharlieBrady on March 25, 2009, 11:16:08 PM

Quote from: jimgoode on March 25, 2009, 10:38:06 PM

I am upgrading from 6.0.1-01 to 7.4, but also experimented with a 7.4 clean install. One thing I noticed on the clean install was that /bin/bash, among other shells, had been eliminated.

/bin/bash has not been eliminated. It still exists on my system.

Title: Re: Why Eliminate bash?
Post by: David Harper on March 26, 2009, 03:39:17 AM

In the 7.x series, console access is disabled for all users except root and admin. This is by design.

To re-enable access, you can use the smeserver-remoteuseraccess contrib.