change session's login shell

Jason Clifford jason at ukpost.com
Mon Jul 25 14:38:20 UTC 2011


On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Frank Van Damme
<frank.vandamme at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'd like to change a user's shell based on group membership. The group
> membership is no problem - that's what pam_listfile is for. Changing
> the shell, however, seems non-obvious. I've looked at the source code
> of pam_unix and it provides the path to the users login shell
> according to /etc/passwd, so it should be possible for a pam module to
> set the shell to an arbitrary value, right?
>


No because it's the ssh daemon or the login process that sets the shell.
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