Different shells ¿how to workaround?

[Jordi Espasa Clofent <jespasac@minibofh.org>]

Hi all,

I'm just learning OpenLDAP; I'm hope it isn't a silly question.

I've mounted a OpenLDAP (version 2.4 in a FreeBSD 7.x platform) as 
account authentication server and all works fine. The clients are 
FreeBSD and GNU/Linux Debian. One problem I've found is related to 
loginShell field in posixAccount schema. It's because of  when I was 
setting up the servers, I've configured /bin/csh as the default shell 
for the users

It's ok in FreeBSD clients (csh exists in default instalation), but you 
get an error when you try to authenticate a Debian client. ¿Why? Simple, 
the default shell in Debian is /bin/bash, not the defined /bin/csh. 
Currently, do you have two options to workaround this issue:

	* install csh in Debian clients and assure that the binary path is /bin/csh
	* make a symlink /bin/csh which point to /bin/bash

At present, I've chosen the second option.

¿Is correct this workaround or maybe I don't know some other obvious 
method to get it?

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Thanks,
Jordi Espasa Clofent