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

[Sina Owolabi]

Thank you!
Everything is bash-ful again.
On Thu Jan 22 2015 at 12:12:35 PM Alexander Bokovoy <abokovoy at redhat.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
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