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[mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org]

On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Markus Friedl wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 09:57:48PM -0600, mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org wrote:
> > I really wish we could drop the requirement for the user's shell for
> > subsystem
> 
> no, i don't want to drop this.
> 
> the shell sets umask or is used for access control, e.g. /bin/false.
> 

Using shells as access control has always been an ugly hack to me, and as
a result I was glad to see User/Group Access List appear.

If 'umask' is the only other argument for shell around then I'd be happy
to submit a patch to make .ssh/environment smart enough to detect 'umask'
variable and set the umask so we can drop the shell.  Otherwise, there has
to be a better reason for it.  

- Ben