[Pkg-ltsp-devel] Bug#490897: ldm: tcsh users unable to login

[Vagrant Cascadian]

tags 490897 - pending
tags 490897 wontfix
thanks

so, i've spent many hours and tried many patches, and while it's
definitely possible to get tcsh logins with ldm sort of working, it's
almost impossible to get it working cleanly and consistantly.

we'd have to either prepend '/bin/sh -c "foo ; bar ; baz"' or 'env foo ;
env bar ; env baz' to every single call to ssh, with some pretty ugly
escaping of variables and so on.  various ldm hooks from other packages
call ssh numerous times. new features are still in development, which
will likely do the same.

unfortunately ldm and ltsp make extensive use of environment variables
across multiple ssh calls, and the differences in the bourne and csh
shell families make this rather difficult to support.

it's a lot of work, i'm not really able to test patches with all posible
combinations of ltsp features.  since upstream isn't excited about
continued support for tcsh either, it would be a bit of a burden to
maintain patches specifically for debian to handle tcsh.

so, for the moment at least, i'm marking this as wontfix. of couse, if
the situation significantly changes, or new, well-tested and very simple
patches to make it work arise, i'd reconsider.

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  vagrant