llama_thumper Posted May 16, 2003 Posted May 16, 2003 how do i do it? who do i pay? thanks! pete Quote
TCH-JimE Posted May 16, 2003 Posted May 16, 2003 Hi, Submit a help desk ticket stating good reasons for your shell access. Cost is stated on the front page. If approved, you will be given jail shell access. Jim Quote
twowheels Posted May 16, 2003 Posted May 16, 2003 Yikes! I just signed in to see what shell I had (since I didn't seem to remember it being jailshell, but rather bash), and it seems I've been changed as well! I don't know anything about jailshell... what are the differences? A few things I noticed: My .profile is no longer being used!!!!! - Thus, my aliases don't work - My path's aren't being set Is jailshell the ONLY shell option? Was everybody changed over, even previous bash users? Quote
KevinW Posted May 17, 2003 Posted May 17, 2003 I can't answer about prior 'bash' users, but jailshell is the only one to be provided for new requests effective today. Let me see what else I can find out for you! -kw Quote
twowheels Posted May 20, 2003 Posted May 20, 2003 Thank you KW. After playing with jailshell a little bit, it seems to work acceptably if I manually run my .profile to update my paths and aliases, but I can't seem to find any information about it either online, nor with an info nor man page. Quote
idallen Posted May 21, 2003 Posted May 21, 2003 After playing with jailshell a little bit, it seems to work acceptably if I manually run my .profile to update my paths and aliases, but I can't seem to find any information about it either online, nor with an info nor man page. The jailshell has some problems - see here: http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/i...=ST&f=37&t=1870 Quote
twowheels Posted May 21, 2003 Posted May 21, 2003 Ah ha! Lucky guy! (refering to your resolution in the other thread) Thanks Ian. I'm having the same problems you are referring to. I have to manualy do a cd, then . .profile every time I sign in to get things set up how I need them. So far it seems OK, I just hope I don't run into any problems in the future. Its funny how the $HOME variable is set, cd takes me to my home directory, but I start out in the / directory. Quote
idallen Posted May 21, 2003 Posted May 21, 2003 Yea, when you log in to Unix the login process puts your shell into $HOME as you log in. The jailshell chroot mechanism forgets to mimic this behaviour; so, you end up in the new root. If the jailshell were changed to be a script that did "cd $HOME; exec jailshell.real", it might work. Quote
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