basic shell

Ed Sutter ed.sutter at alcatel-lucent.com
Fri Feb 28 03:09:14 WST 2014


Bodo,
My system doesn't have a /etc/shells file by default; however I created 
one and added my shell's
path to it and that did it!
Thanks much,
Ed
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> On 27.02.2014 19:33, Ed Sutter wrote:
>> For my project though, I need to run a custom shell that only provides the user with VERY minimal access to the system all through builtins. When I set up a new user to run this shell and log in from my system's serial port console it works just fine; however, when I try to login as that user using ssh, I get...
>>
>> Permission denied, please try again.
> Hello Ed,
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> I don't know if dropbear checks this, but maybe your shell must be listed in /etc/shells.
>
> Bodo
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