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byobu package

How to use byobu as a login shell?

Asked by Uqbar on 2012-02-23

I need to create users on a server machine so that as soon as they login (with SSH or telnet) I have byobu running.
My perfect solution is to have byobu as the login shell in /etc/passwd and not spawned though the .profile/.login/.bashrc and the likes.
I've done a few (trivial) tests but I didn't succeeded so far.

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Language:: English Edit question

Status:: Solved

For:: Ubuntu byobu Edit question

Assignee:: No assignee Edit question

Solved by:: Dustin Kirkland 

Solved:: 2012-03-08

Last query:: 2012-03-08

Last reply:: 2012-02-24

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Sam_ (and-sam) said on 2012-02-24:

In Precise it's available through an environment variable. bug 586546
Or rather ask Dustin, he really is a byobu expert.
http://texaslinuxfest.org/sessions/byobu-damn-fine-command-line
http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2011/05/byobu-video-from-uds-o-lightning-talks.html

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Uqbar (uqbar) said on 2012-02-24:

First of all, Sam_, I'm not going to either wait for or upgrade to Precise Pangolin in the near future: my servers are in production.
Second, I need byobu to be spawned with SSH (external) and telnet (internal). The LC_BYOBU variable would work only with SSH.
I was expecting a command line + configuration to be set in /etc/passwd: this is what I'd call a "login shell".
Thanks for the hints, any way.