Re: zsh and fish missed in /etc/shells?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Axel <address@hidden> skribis:

> Well, I modified the patch and now it just trivially add paths for
> fish, tcsh and zsh.
>
> For example Debian has add-shell/remove-shell scripts triggered on
> package installing and removing. FTP servers like proftpd by default
> check for installed shells and with this patch they will allow for a
> user shells that don't really exist in a system. Probably it is not a
> problem though.

I think it’s fine.

> I noted in a changelog what we add paths unconditionally.

I moved this explanation as a comment in the code itself; we only
mention in change logs the actual changes, and explanations usually go
to comments (info "(standards) Change Logs").

> From d17569a3b3f00066531361b9f29b840be2444982 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: "Alexander I.Grafov (Axel)" <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 15:17:24 +0300
> Subject: [PATCH] system: Add fish/tcsh/zsh to /etc/shells
>
> * gnu/system.scm (etc-directory): Add fish, tcsh and zsh paths
>   to /etc/shells. We don't check that these shells really installed.

Applied, thanks!

Ludo’.