* Matthias Klose <d...@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
