[2019-09-03 22:21] Chris Hofstaedtler <z...@debian.org> > * 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; Point of whole excersise is strip bash of essential flag.
> once you have user accounts that use bash, they should just stay as > they were. If so, removing bash, once it is no longer essencial, will break default installation where root shell is bash. This is not how uninstallation is intended to work. > For new systems, defaulting to dash might be useful. No. Firstly, many would object this change. Secondly, it does not solve initial problem. -- Note, that I send and fetch email in batch, once in a few days. Please, mention in body of your reply when you add or remove recepients.
