Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 14:14:28 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Cc: JSINNOTT@pomona.edu Subject: Re: BASH shell script question.. Message-ID: <199601061314.OAA13251@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <9601060555.AA08315@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> from "Sean Kelly" at Jan 5, 96 10:55:41 pm
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As Sean Kelly wrote:
>
> Yes. Just make the script the login shell in the password file for
> the user in question. As root, use vipw or chpass -s to change the
> login shell to the full pathname of the script. Make sure the script
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> is executable. That's it.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This translates into ``the script must be an "interpreted
executable"''. I.e., you have to use
#!/usr/local/bin/bash
as the first line of your script, in addition to setting the
appropriate x-permissions. Without this, execve(2) won't accept the
script as an executable program. (For a normal shell environment,
this is the point where your login shell jumps in and feeds the script
into some sort of a shell. This doesn't work for a login program
however.)
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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