[Bug 1762] New: Improve the documentation w.r.t. "the user's shell"

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https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1762

           Summary: Improve the documentation w.r.t. "the user's shell"
           Product: Portable OpenSSH
           Version: 5.5p1
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: Documentation
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at mindrot.org
        ReportedBy: vincent at vinc17.org


The ssh documentation (man pages) uses "the user's shell" with
different meanings.

For sshd, it is IMHO clear that "the user's shell" refers to the shell
specified in /etc/passwd (if there's another way to specify it, this
should be described).

For the local side (for LocalCommand and ProxyCommand), the ssh_config
man page should say that it uses $SHELL if any (else the shell from
/etc/passwd?) and that it assumes that $SHELL uses an absolute
pathname. Moreover SHELL should be listed in the ENVIRONMENT section of
the ssh(1) man page.

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