I don't think a default fallback shell would be very secure.  (unless
it was /bin/false)

On 6/9/05, Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd@twofifty.com> wrote:
> I was recompiling some things in pkgsrc and my shell, tcsh, was missing.
> Trying to use ssh gave me an odd prompt, just:
> Password:
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> What I expected was to see:
> Enter passphrase for key ...
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> Or even:
> htodd@machine's password:
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> I had the default pam configuration.
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> None of my passwords worked (or did work, but were refused because I had
> no shell, I don't know.)
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> I figured out what was wrong after trying to log in at the console and
> getting an error message there.
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> Is this the proper behavior?
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> --
> Hisashi T Fujinaka - htodd@twofifty.com
> BSEE(6/86) + BSChem(3/95) + BAEnglish(8/95) + MSCS(8/03) + $2.50 =3D latt=
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