Terminal bug: missing prompt
Jean-Marie Pacquet
jm at pacquet.net
Sat Feb 23 17:10:07 CET 2008
Alexander Toresson a écrit :
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Robby Workman <xfce at rlworkman.net> wrote:
>
>> Jean-Marie Pacquet wrote:
>> [...]
>> > It seems that Terminal requires your own prefered shell to be listed in
>> > the /etc/passwd. Adding "/bin/bash" at the end of my entry in
>> > /etc/passwd effectively fixed the problem.
>>
>>
>> Of course it does - that's standard format for /etc/passwd.
>>
>> When you add/edit a user account with kuser (the kde tool for user
>> management), make sure you don't leave the shell selection box
>> empty.
>>
>> -RW
>>
>>
>
> man 5 passwd disagrees, saying that the last field is the 'optional
> user command interpreter' field, and if none is supplied, it should
> default to /bin/sh.
>
>
It is, in fact, optional and that's why it's a bug in Terminal.
Thanks, Alexander.
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jmp
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