Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Package: rssh
> Version: 2.3.2-2

> There are at least two reasons for this:
>  - you don't want users to be able to change their restricted shell, and
>    the way to make chsh prevent it is to NOT have the shell in
>    /etc/shells. Otherwise the restricted user can have its shell changed
>    by another (non-restricted) user using a clever combination of su
>    options and chsh.
>  - a non-resticted user may accidentally lock himself out of the system
>    by changing to a restricted shell by mistake. See the NOTE in
>    chsh(1).

Looking at:

    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=312330

it appears it was only added for cosmetic reasons.  I'll remove it in the
next upload.

Thanks!  I wasn't aware of the su/chsh thing.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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