Editor With NO Shell Access?

[Polytropon]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:34:18 -0700, Edward M. wrote:
> On 03/12/2012 03:47 PM, Edward M. wrote:
> > On 03/12/2012 03:23 PM, Polytropon wrote:
> >> On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:19:51 -0700, Edward M. wrote:
> >>> On 03/12/2012 03:10 PM, Polytropon wrote:
> >>>> /etc/shells to work, but a passwd entry like
> >>>>
> >>>>     bob:*:1234:1234:Two-loop-Bob:/home/bob:/usr/local/bin/joe
> >>>
> >>>     I think this would not  let the user to login,etc
> >> I'm not sure... I assume logging in is handled by /usr/bin/login,
> >> and control is then (i. e. after successful login) transferred
> >> to the login shell, which is the program specified in the
> >> "shell" field (see "man 5 passwd") of /etc/passwd. How is
> >> login supposed to know if the program specified in this
> >> field is actually a dialog shell?
> >>
> >>  From "man 1 login" I read that many shells have a built-in
> >> login command, but /usr/bin/login is the system's default
> >> binary for this purpose if the "shell" (quotes deserved if
> >> it is an editor as shown in my assumption) has no capability
> >> of performing a login.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >    Now i gotta try this out.   Off to
> >    hosed my system.
>       Does not work. Could not login, it shows "Couldn't open *-joerc."

Very strange message. I know there's a .joerc in ~ (for the
user) and a global /usr/local/etc/joe/rjoerc (for system-wide
use).

I also get this message:

	Couldn't open '*-joerc'

Maybe this is because joe isn't a shell and doesn't set some
required variables, such as $PATH or $HOME, and joe cannot
find its rc files...

The reason is what I see in /usr/ports/editors/joe/work/joe-3.7/main.c
line 353 and above.





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Polytropon
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