Re: [Jailkit-users] help , Keith

[Olivier Sessink]

Stephen Tallowitz wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
>> 2 is a bit of a funny alternative, jk_lsh is designed as
>> alternative for bash if you want to disallow interactive shells. So
>> if you want an interactive shell just do 1 and don't use jk_lsh.
> 
> this may be true for bash, but I remember (from the back of my foggy
> memory somewhere), that I once experimented with freenx and there was
> a difference if I executed some freenx program directly, or ran it
> from "within" jk_lsh. This was the difference between being able to
> execute some programs in KDE and not being able to do so. So jk_lsh
> had an effect on programs being executed from within jk_lsh.

the system() call uses /bin/sh to execute a program. This doesn't work
if /bin/sh (or /bin/bash) doesn't exist. I know for Nomachine (the
commercial version of freenx) that it needs bash because of that.

regards,
        Olivier