[ksh93-integration-discuss] Bizarre Login Issue w/ ksh93

[Alan Coopersmith]

Shawn Walker wrote:
> On 14/09/2007, Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
>> Shawn Walker wrote:
>>> I don't know where to begin to debug this and I've checked all the log
>>> files I can think of.
>>>
>>> Right now, if I set my shell to /usr/bin/ksh93 in /etc/passwd, when I
>>> try to login to JDS or CDE, it immediately exits and sends me back to
>>> the login screen.
>> Could be 6600549 "Xsession should be ksh93 aware", which is fixed
>> in nv_74, but since Xsession is a shell script you can manually
>> edit it to add ksh93 whereever you see ksh already.
> 
> That bug isn't public for some reason, but my problem was ksh93 wasn't
> in /etc/shells.

It's against dtlogin (CDE) which isn't an open consolidation, so
none of it's bugs are public, but as you can see in /usr/dt/bin/Xsession
it will augment the list built into Xsession with those in /etc/shells,
so /etc/shells is a workaround for 6600549.

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