Error message when login shell is not in /etc/shells

[vrms]

Continuing the discussion from Can not login to personal user, but as root:

in the above Topic an issue was solved over several days which turned out to be caused by a missing entry in etc/shells. That prevented to login for users.

The error message I got was “password not accepted”. This was quite misleading and I am wondering 2 things

1. wouldn’t it be better to have a more explanatory error?
2. which would be the entity to implement such. I guess not necessarily the distribution but more somebody working on more basic linux toolsets.

Any ideas?

[linux-aarhus]

The obvious answer would be - add the shell in question …

[zbe]

@vrms

The error message I got was “password not accepted”. This was quite misleading

How is it misleading? It was not accepted.

Anyway: Issues · shadow-maint/shadow · GitHub

And to add to all of this: If you merged your .pacnew files, /usr/bin/bash would already be there.

[vrms]

@zbe

And to add to all of this: If you merged your .pacnew files, /usr/bin/bash would already be there.

that is true and I definitely have to improve as a Manjaro user and a person in general. However … an error message could be helpful, or misleading.

And even users, who are not ideal users might even have good intentions might be worth to be helped with leading error messages.

[cscs]

pacnew files are warned about during upgrade btw.
To see if you currently have more:

pacdiff -o