[colug-432] Okay, I've got to be doing something stupid... any thoughts on what?

[Rick Hornsby]

> On Jul 10, 2015, at 16:31, David Alden <dave at alden.name> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> On 7/10/15 5:06 PM, William Yang wrote:
>> I'm using a Centos 7 box -- noting that I'm usually an Ubuntu guy nowadays.
>> 
>> To solve a specific problem, I've written a PERL script that I want to be
>> the login shell of a user (the script manages several configuration
>> functions and its expected use case is on one of the consoles).  The script
>> does all functions I expect it to.  The first line of the script is '#!
>> /usr/bin/perl' and it's chmod 0755.
>> 
>> It works if I ssh onto the box as the user:  ssh menu at host starts as
>> expected.  However, if I try to log in on tty1 or anything on the console,
>> it displays stuff from login, then the console blanks and returns to a
>> login prompt.  There's some kind of error message that looks like it may
>> say permission denied, but the screen refreshes and clears too quickly for
>> me to really understand it.  I tried for 90 minutes to get it to happen in
>> a way I could capture it, without success.
> 
>   Do you have the full path name of the script in /etc/shells?  I'm 
> pretty sure you need it there.
> 

I may have been thinking of that - but now that you mention it I think that list is what shells a user is allowed to set for themselves?