[Freeipa-users] Creating Home directories still presents as -sh-4.1$ after changing oddjob mask

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, Sina Owolabi wrote:
>Sorry I was misunderstood. The umm.../bin/sh? Was me being sheepish after
>causing all the ruckus this morning.
>-sh-4.1$ getent passwd sina
>sina:*:392100000:392100000:Sina Owolabi:/home/sina:/bin/sh
>
>How do I change the default to /bin/bash?
If it is IPA user, do following:

$ kinit sina
$ ipa user-mod sina --shell=/bin/bash

The default is to have the shell set to /bin/sh because bash isn't
available on all platforms by default and OpenSSH will refuse to log in
a user which uses non-existing shell. /bin/sh is guaranteed to exist in
all POSIX-compatible environments.

You can change defaults via

$ kinit admin
$ ipa config-mod --defaultshell=/bin/bash

The defaults will only apply to users that will be created after the
change.

>
>On Thu Jan 22 2015 at 11:37:03 AM Alexander Bokovoy <abokovoy at redhat.com>
>wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, Sina Owolabi wrote:
>> >Umm... /bin/sh?
>> Yes, POSIX shell. So, what do you get as an output with
>>
>>   $ getent passwd sina
>>
>> ?
>>
>> Bash emulates POSIX shell with a specific behavior (you can read bash
>> manual page, chapter INVOCATION, starting with "If bash is invoked with
>> the name sh, it tries to mimic the startup behavior of  historical
>> versions  of sh as closely as possible". In such case bash doesn't read
>> own profile files and sets PS1 to something close to \s-\v\$ which is
>> what you get in your sessions below:
>>
>> >> >[root at node5 ~]# su - hofozor
>> >> >-sh-4.1$ su - sina
>> >> >Password:
>> >> >-sh-4.1$
>> >> >-sh-4.1$ pwd
>> >> >/home/sina
>>
>> --
>> / Alexander Bokovoy
>>

-- 
/ Alexander Bokovoy