Once upon a time login shell activity was triggered by the first character of argv[0] (to the shell) being a '-' character. Strange, and maybe stupid, but that's how it was done. The "-l" option was just to trigger (manually) the automatic '-/bin/sh' behavior, when you needed it in scripts.
Our busybox system is still using that leading '-' character, why isn't yours? -- Jim -----Original Message----- From: busybox-boun...@busybox.net [mailto:busybox-boun...@busybox.net] On Behalf Of Sam Gandhi Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 6:20 AM To: busybox@busybox.net Subject: login shell when using CONFIG_INSTALL_APPLET_SCRIPT_WRAPPERS I am running busybox with option CONFIG_INSTALL_APPLET_SCRIPT_WRAPPERS, I need to run with this option because of SELinux. Only issue I am running into is when I login /etc/profile or ~/.profile are not getting run. I see that busybox has option to run shell with -l option. But if I modify my /etc/passwd file to refer to shell as /bin/sh -l , login works fine but other programs such as dropbear don't work. Before I start patching those programs wanted to find out if there is some other way I can invoke shell to let it know that its login shell v/s non-login shell? -Sam _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
