Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 +MMDF+MULTI+2.11; site icdoc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!icdoc!iwm From: iwm@icdoc.UUCP (Ian Moor) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Alternate Shells Message-ID: <237@ivax.icdoc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 17:54:44 EDT Article-I.D.: ivax.237 Posted: Tue Aug 20 17:54:44 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 17:10:59 EDT References: <10672@Glacier.ARPA> <575@bu-cs.UUCP> <615@ucsfcgl.UUCP> Reply-To: iwm@icdoc.UUCP (Ian Moor) Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK. Lines: 21 Xpath: icdoc ivax In article <615@ucsfcgl.UUCP> arnold@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Ken Arnold) writes: >>>A quickie: 4.2BSD chsh does not allow the user to specify alternative >>>shells - only "sh" and "csh" are permitted. Why is this? >I helped make this decision -- it was because people who left their >terminals unattended for a few minutes (to relieve themselves, say) >would find themselves with a strange shell the next time they logged >on. Surely being able to change your password interactively can cause just the same problem and passwd has a solution, ask for your current password. Its more difficult to stop people changing your .login though. -- Ian W Moor The squire on the hippopotamus is equal Department of Computing to the sons of the other two squires. Imperial College. 180 Queensgate London SW7 Uk.