Bug#490897: ldm: tcsh users unable to login
Hi Vagrant, this bug is more than a year old already, but when you were testing, did you also try something like this: echo sh-code | ssh server /bin/sh I think this should be less problematic with regard to quoting, and also upstream seemed to be open to an approach that specified a shell explicitly, instead of implicitly relying on a user's login shell or trying to write code that will run on all types of shell. Also, for all admins of frustrated tcsh users happening upon this bug report, I'd like to suggest the following workaround: ~/.bash_profile: # tcsh for interactive login shells. [[ $- == *i* ]] SHELL=tcsh exec tcsh -l ~/.bashrc: # tcsh for interactive non-login shells. [[ $- == *i* ]] SHELL=tcsh exec tcsh Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#490897: ldm: tcsh users unable to login
tags 490897 - pending tags 490897 wontfix thanks so, i've spent many hours and tried many patches, and while it's definitely possible to get tcsh logins with ldm sort of working, it's almost impossible to get it working cleanly and consistantly. we'd have to either prepend '/bin/sh -c foo ; bar ; baz' or 'env foo ; env bar ; env baz' to every single call to ssh, with some pretty ugly escaping of variables and so on. various ldm hooks from other packages call ssh numerous times. new features are still in development, which will likely do the same. unfortunately ldm and ltsp make extensive use of environment variables across multiple ssh calls, and the differences in the bourne and csh shell families make this rather difficult to support. it's a lot of work, i'm not really able to test patches with all posible combinations of ltsp features. since upstream isn't excited about continued support for tcsh either, it would be a bit of a burden to maintain patches specifically for debian to handle tcsh. so, for the moment at least, i'm marking this as wontfix. of couse, if the situation significantly changes, or new, well-tested and very simple patches to make it work arise, i'd reconsider. live well, vagrant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#490897: ldm: tcsh users unable to login]
Package: ldm Version: 2:2.0.6-1~40.etch.0 Severity: important After a lot of hours spent troubleshooting I have discovered that ldm (at least, could be other parts of ltsp as well) assumed that the user trying to login is using as bourne shell in the server machine. For example, line 71 if src/sshutils.c of ldm: sshcmd[i++] = LANG=C; Here ssh is hardcoded to set an environmental variable using this syntax which is not compatible with tcsh syntax (env LANG=C would be needed in that case). I tried changing the above but this only seemed to move the problem somewhere else. If I create two new users on the server where one user is using /bin/bash as login shell and one user is using /usr/bin/tcsh only the bash user is allowed to login. I'm on etch but I followed the directions here to install LTSP5: http://wiki.debian.org/LTSP/Howto Regards Daniel -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-smi-patch Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages ldm depends on: ii gtk2-engines [gtk2-eng 1:2.8.2-1 theme engines for GTK+ 2.x ii gtk2-engines-clearlook 1:2.8.2-1 Clearlooks GTK+ 2.x engine and the ii libatk1.0-01.12.4-3 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.2.4-4.1+etch1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.4-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-02.8.20-7 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libpango1.0-0 1.14.8-5 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii libxcursor11.1.7-4 X cursor management library ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.1-5 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio ii libxi6 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Input extension library ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4.1 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-5 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender11:0.9.1-3 X Rendering Extension client libra ii openssh-client 1:4.3p2-9etch2Secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh ii xserver-xorg 1:7.1.0-19the X.Org X server ii xserver-xorg-core [xse 2:1.1.1-21etch5 X.Org X server -- core server Versions of packages ldm recommends: ii netcat1.10-32TCP/IP swiss army knife -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
