The monkeysphere system user must have bash as its shell for the simple su invocation to work. Do not try to explicitly preserve the environment across an su, as this is the default, and -m implies using the login shell of the superuser under FreeBSD.

4 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/debian/monkeysphere.postinst b/debian/monkeysphere.postinst
index d3c3b96..981c9df 100755
--- a/debian/monkeysphere.postinst
+++ b/debian/monkeysphere.postinst
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ if ! getent passwd monkeysphere >/dev/null ; then
     echo "adding monkeysphere user..."
     adduser --quiet --system --no-create-home --group \
 	--home "$VARLIB" \
-	--shell '/bin/sh' \
+	--shell '/bin/bash' \
 	--gecos 'monkeysphere authentication user,,,' \
 	monkeysphere
 fi
diff --git a/packaging/freebsd/distinfo b/packaging/freebsd/distinfo
index d590579..26aa939 100644
--- a/packaging/freebsd/distinfo
+++ b/packaging/freebsd/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-MD5 (monkeysphere_0.16~pre.orig.tar.gz) = bda65df4e378e72f3edf02936b2b5f34
-SHA256 (monkeysphere_0.16~pre.orig.tar.gz) = d0c85ad5cdd9b7a61333adf56714e3b25f1bd619bbc40279db759347b17980fe
-SIZE (monkeysphere_0.16~pre.orig.tar.gz) = 59241
+MD5 (monkeysphere_0.16~pre.orig.tar.gz) = e94bc8371adf8ce30c58ec040e436417
+SHA256 (monkeysphere_0.16~pre.orig.tar.gz) = f8543778c6ae5a7a87dcb03e34980436f6d967edeb87ccfac2cc19c750f4e588
+SIZE (monkeysphere_0.16~pre.orig.tar.gz) = 59253
diff --git a/packaging/freebsd/pkg-install b/packaging/freebsd/pkg-install
index 92a4bbc..6783ee8 100755
--- a/packaging/freebsd/pkg-install
+++ b/packaging/freebsd/pkg-install
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ POST-INSTALL)
                 echo "You already have a user \"${USER}\", so I will use it."
         else
                 if pw useradd ${USER} -u ${UID} -g ${GROUP} -h - \
-                        -d "$VARLIB" -s /bin/sh -c "monkeysphere authentication user,,,"
+                        -d "$VARLIB" -s /usr/local/bin/bash -c "monkeysphere authentication user,,,"
                 then
                         echo "Added user \"${USER}\"."
                 else
diff --git a/src/monkeysphere-server b/src/monkeysphere-server
index b1cacf9..db3687b 100755
--- a/src/monkeysphere-server
+++ b/src/monkeysphere-server
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ EOF
 }
 
 su_monkeysphere_user() {
-    su -m "$MONKEYSPHERE_USER" -c "$@"
+    su "$MONKEYSPHERE_USER" -c "$@"
 }
 
 # function to interact with the host gnupg keyring
@@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ diagnostics() {
     warndate=$(advance_date $warnwindow +%s)
 
     if ! id monkeysphere >/dev/null ; then
-	echo "! No monkeysphere user found!  Please create a monkeysphere system user."
+	echo "! No monkeysphere user found!  Please create a monkeysphere system user with bash as its shell."
 	problemsfound=$(($problemsfound+1))
     fi