Bug 432073

What problems are created by this?

Changed expectations. Just changing it to /bin/bash should work.

Just built 0.3.9-6

I'll test it further when I can be in the physical presence of my testing box.

Latest package behaves well. Closing this one

Ahem. Many sites have this in their /etc/inittab:

sum:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin


And to top it off, the comments at the top of /etc/event.d/rcS-sulogin say:

# This task runs the sulogin binary during "single-user" mode.

And the file is *called* 'sulogin', not rcS-runbash.

I'd say there's an expectation that it invokes /sbin/sulogin, not a raw
unprotected shell....

Possible work-around while /etc/inittab is still around:

script
        runlevel --set S >/dev/null || true
        grep -q 'S:wait:/sbin/sulogin' /etc/inittab
        if [ $? = 0 ]; then
            /sbin/sulogin
        else
            /bin/bash
        fi

        if [ -r /etc/inittab ]; then

Don't think it's practical to rely on the presence of inittab. Renaming the file
could be an option, though.

That being said, it still falls under the general category of 'if you have
customized your /etc/inittab, you will need to do customization of the default
upstart setup.'

Right - but there's 2 points here: (1) There's precious little doc yet on how to
customize it, and (2) The file is *called* sulogin, the comment at the top
*says* it runs sulogin - but it doesn't, it runs bash instead.  Certainly
counter-intuitive.