Bug 51834 – Changing the default shell for new users has no effect

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Bug 51834 - Changing the default shell for new users has no effect

Summary:	Changing the default shell for new users has no effect

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Public Beta
Classification:	Retired
Component:	redhat-config-users (Show other bugs)
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Version:	roswell
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Brent Fox
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Reported:	2001-08-15 13:19 EDT by Joachim Frieben
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:38 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2001-08-15 15:55:57 EDT
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Description Joachim Frieben 2001-08-15 13:19:09 EDT

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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 15:55:52 EDT

We (Red Hat) should really try to fix this before next release.

Comment 2 Brent Fox 2001-08-16 16:06:13 EDT

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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