Bug 51834 - Changing the default shell for new users has no effect
Summary: Changing the default shell for new users has no effect
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: redhat-config-users
Version: roswell
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Brent Fox
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-08-15 17:19 UTC by Joachim Frieben
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-08-15 19:55:57 UTC
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Description Joachim Frieben 2001-08-15 17:19:09 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)

Description of problem:
When creating a new user account, changing the default shell does not have 
any effect. It is necessary to edit the user properties separately to make 
this change effective.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.7.0-0

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch 'redhat-config-users'.
2. Create a new user and set the default shell to a different shell 
than 'bash'.
3. Have a look at the user properties list or type 'more /etc/passwd'.
	

Actual Results:  Default shell is still 'bash'.

Expected Results:  Default shell should the selected one.

Additional info:

Editing the user properties within 'redhat-config-users' makes the change 
happen.
Comment 1 Glen Foster 2001-08-15 19:55:52 UTC 
We (Red Hat) should really try to fix this before next release.
Comment 2 Brent Fox 2001-08-16 20:06:13 UTC 
Fixed in cvs.  Thanks for your report.  The fix should appear in the
redhat-config-users-0.9.2-3 package, when it gets built.
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