Getting a new shell to work for the 'toor' user

Don Wilde dwilde1 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 6 19:10:13 UTC 2020


All,

I finally got around to -- I thought :) -- completing my inclusion of 
bash-static as a usable shell.

It works as an available shell in 'adduser', but when I tried to use it 
as a recovery shell (see attached .odt), I ran into a problem. My fist 
pass was to add /bin/stbash to the end of the toor line in 
master.passwd, but that didn't change it even after a reboot.

Next, I discovered that logging in as toor and issuing:

# chsh -s /bin/stbash, but that didn't work successfully because it 
changed my root shell to the static-linked bash as well. I quickly 
changed it back!

Two other commands work as expected, and track the issue: 'echo $0' and 
'echo $SHELL'

I don't see where SHELL is set, or $0. Are these in one of the rc files?

<whoops> What did I miss?

-- 
Don Wilde
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