On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 06:12:05PM +0200, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > * Helmut Grohne <hel...@subdivi.de> [2021-06-24 08:10]: > > Felix C. Stegerman cautioned that the contents of /etc/shells depends on > > whether the underlying system is /usr-merged. > > It also means that on /usr-merged systems e.g. /bin/screen is not a > "valid" shell, but /usr/bin/screen is (even though they are the same > file), which may be fine in practice but seems counter-intuitive to > me.
That will be a problem in environments having a central user database. Since password entries will be the same on all hosts, the contents of /etc/shells should also be the same - otherwise, users may not be able to log in. So /etc/shells changing depending on usrmerge is not just counter-intuitive, but it has the potential of breaking things. Gabor
