Bug 133696

Summary:	YAST2 User Management Default Shell bug
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Richard Thornton <thornton.richard>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
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Found By:	Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	passwd file yast2 log

Description Richard Thornton 2005-11-14 16:20:17 UTC

When I setup my Suse 10 box, I selected
the default desktop to be GNOME;  I
added support for KDE as well.  As a
default shell, I selected BASH.  I think I
have found a small bug in the installation
scripts.  If I go into user management
from YAST, and change the default shell
to TCSH, then the ONLY desktop the
system will let me use is GNOME.   I fail
to see why these two user parameters
should be connected.  Is this normal
system behaviour or is this a bug?

Comment 1 Michael Gross 2005-11-14 17:50:35 UTC

Please be a little more verbose here and attach the YaST2 logfile for that scenario. What exactly do you mean by ``then the ONLY desktop the
system will let me use is GNOME.''?

Comment 2 Richard Thornton 2005-11-14 18:11:17 UTC

Ths problem is simple to reproduce.  Setup a user with a default shell of bash.  I also setup the system as a GNOME desktop, but I added all KDE software prior to installation, so I can use either desktop.  Go to YAST, then edit the the user.
Change the default shell to say csh or tcsh.  Then, try to login with KDE; it will always boot as GNOME until the default shell is changed back to bash.  I have noticed korn shell does not cause this problem;  only csh.

Comment 3 Michael Gross 2005-11-14 20:01:12 UTC

Please attach the YaST2 logfile and the resulting /etc/passwd.

Comment 4 Richard Thornton 2005-11-15 18:31:36 UTC

Created attachment 57405 [details]
passwd file

Comment 5 Richard Thornton 2005-11-15 18:32:06 UTC

Created attachment 57406 [details]
yast2 log

Comment 6 Richard Thornton 2005-11-15 18:34:09 UTC

Attached are the requested items.

Comment 7 Michael Gross 2005-11-17 14:28:51 UTC

I was not able to reproduce this problem. I configured the C shell as default with YaST (/usr/bin/csh) and logged into KDE with KDM - worked fine. Starting a `konsole' gave me a csh as expected. None of your users has csh/tcsh as default shell...

If you can give more information on how to reprodcue this, please reopen it.