[Freeipa-users] why default shell /bin/sh

[Rob Crittenden]

Natxo Asenjo wrote:
> hi,
>
> just interested. We have noticed that ldap users have this PS1 envvar:
> PS1='\s-\v\$ ' instead of the usual [\u@\h \W]\$
>
> This is a confusing moment. Changing the shell to /bin/bash solves this,
> but maybe this is not optimal for other systems or users.

Lowest-common denominator. One can configure all sorts of *nix-like 
systems to use IPA for authentication so we needed a default shell that 
is available on all systems and that is the bourne shell.

This is configurable in the IPA configuration, and you can override the 
shell in sssd as well.

rob