Editor With NO Shell Access?

[Edward M.]

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."