On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Aaron Martinez <m...@proficuous.com> wrote: > I'm running OpenBSD 4.4 Stable and have created a little shell script menu > program that I want certain users to have as their only interaction with > the system. I created users using the script as their shell and also put > it in /etc/shells but when the user logs in they get a standard shell. I > was testing it through ssh so I thought maybe it had something to do with > the environment but the same thing happens when I log in locally. If log > in as root and then "su - <username>" the script runs as expected. > > Is this the wrong way to do this? Would it be better putting something in > the .profile? > > Can anyone shed any light as to why this is happening?
Works for me: $ ls -l /usr/local/bin/foo -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 55 Apr 25 17:25 /usr/local/bin/foo $ cat /usr/local/bin/foo #!/bin/sh echo "hello!" read help echo "$help" exit 0 $ grep testing /etc/passwd testing:*:1009:1009:Test User,,,:/home/users/testing:/usr/local/bin/foo $ ...and when I log in on a terminal as 'testing', I get the expected "hello!" and it echos my first line on input and then exits. So: 1) what does the /etc/passwd entry for one of these users look like? 2) when you say "they get a standard shell", what *EXACTLY* do you mean? (If you mean "they get a /bin/sh prompt and it runs their .profile", then please say that) 3) what does the top of the shell script look like? Philip Guenther
