On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 8:07 PM Sven Joachim <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think that would be correct.  When filing the bug, I was worried that
> leaving the entry in /etc/shells might fool an unsuspecting user to
> chsh(1) to a non-existent program, but chsh does not actually let you do
> this (unless you are root in which case it only warns, and then
> /etc/shells is ignored anyway).

Good, thanks for checking.

> Since apparently just about everyone currently gets this wrong, I think
> it would be good to discuss it on debian-devel and file bugs against the
> affected packages when a solution is agreed upon.

Would you like to lead the charge here? My time budget for Debian is
quite limited these days...

Thanks.

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