Hi, On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Mikael Magnusson wrote: > 2008/8/25 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx>: > > > On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > >> > That would involve you actually finding out what's happening, > >> > though. > >> > >> He said so: > >> > >> > test:x:1001:1001:,,,:/home/test:/usr/bin/git shell > >> > > >> > just makes ssh loop asking for a password, logging > >> > > >> > "User test not allowed because shell /usr/bin/git shell does not > >> > exist" > > > > Okay, so this means that you cannot pass arguments to the login shell. > > Makes me wonder... I had the impression that bash was called with > > --login. > > When you login, a '-' is prepended in argv[0], ie, bash checks if it's > called "-bash". This is documented in man bash, but I couldn't find it > in man login or man agetty, not sure where else it might be written > down. Thanks! So does this mean that we could check in git.c if there is a leading "-" in argv[0]? If so, then the builtin git-shell should be called by default. At least I do not expect many instances of git being called with argv[0] starting with a "-"... :-) Ciao, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
