Bug 29051

Summary:	gnome xterm ignores --login
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Marty Shannon <martys>
Component:	pdksh	Assignee:	Trond Eivind Glomsrxd <teg>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1	CC:	hp
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Description Marty Shannon 2001-02-23 15:23:22 UTC

After install, user has /bin/bash as login shell.  I change it to
/bin/ksh.  I change xterm preferences to "always use --login".  User's
.profile is not sourced by ksh on next login.

Comment 1 David Mason 2001-02-23 15:49:51 UTC

hp - I tried '$useradd -s /usr/bin/ksh test' after setting this in
gnome-terminal and it returned 'unable to lock password file' - however it does
dawn on me that you would need to log out of X after changing shells as X will
"hold on to" bash after the login. Is this the case or do we have a
gnome-terminal problem?

Comment 2 Marty Shannon 2001-02-23 16:04:23 UTC

Sorry, my bad.  I use text login, so X is completely exited.  Actually, I think
I rebooted somewhere along the way, too.  A possibility is that it is
ksh-related, but this worked fine in 6.2, for instance.

Comment 3 Preston Brown 2001-02-23 21:08:57 UTC

is this xterm or gnome-terminal?

Comment 4 Marty Shannon 2001-02-23 21:20:33 UTC

This is definitely gnome-terminal.

Comment 5 Glen Foster 2001-02-23 21:54:20 UTC

This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Florence Gold release

Comment 6 Havoc Pennington 2001-02-23 22:57:51 UTC

The problem as far as I can tell is that exec'ing ksh with a hyphen in front
("-/bin/ksh") does not result in a login shell, ksh is broken somehow.
The setting works with bash.

Comment 7 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-02-26 20:15:14 UTC

Exacly how does the exec call look?

Comment 8 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-02-26 20:18:19 UTC

HP: how does the call look?

It gives you a login shell if called with "-l" or if the program (argv[0])
starts with "-". These work.

Comment 9 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-02-26 22:45:44 UTC

Can't reproduce - when I set something in .profile and choose "login shell", I
get it.

Comment 10 Marty Shannon 2001-02-26 23:19:51 UTC

Will try the sequence again, taking more careful notes.  However, I must note
that on the machine in question, I still have to manually do ". ./.profile"
after opening a gnome-xterm.  If I can reproduce, I'll reopen the bug if I'm
permitted to (can I?).