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authorEric Pruitt <eric.pruitt@gmail.com>2014-10-28 17:51:42 -0700
committerRoberto E. Vargas Caballero <k0ga@shike2.com>2014-11-11 19:20:56 +0100
commitbafbba56cd5735c680676db2adf6f614ba61356f (patch)
tree0c2fb58c68d45c8fab539a4c174f4c9e7809ecd1
parent11625c7166b7e4dad414606227acec2de1c36464 (diff)
Check for presence of SHELL environment variable
- POSIX states the SHELL environment variable "... shall represent a pathname of the user's preferred command language interpreter." As such, st should check for its presence when deciding what shell to use; just as HOME can be defined to override one's passwd-defined home directory, a user should also be able to override their passwd-defined shell using the SHELL environment variable.
-rw-r--r--st.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/st.c b/st.c
index ad52280..068fbb3 100644
--- a/st.c
+++ b/st.c
@@ -1158,7 +1158,10 @@ execsh(void) {
die("who are you?\n");
}
- sh = (pw->pw_shell[0]) ? pw->pw_shell : shell;
+ if (!(sh = getenv("SHELL"))) {
+ sh = (pw->pw_shell[0]) ? pw->pw_shell : shell;
+ }
+
if(opt_cmd)
prog = opt_cmd[0];
else if(utmp)