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authordjm@openbsd.org <djm@openbsd.org>2019-08-09 05:05:54 +0000
committerDamien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>2019-08-09 15:11:30 +1000
commit9ab5b9474779ac4f581d402ae397f871ed16b383 (patch)
tree72369374530697b38743e4fa0e7648559d48c153 /readconf.c
parent8fdbc7247f432578abaaca1b72a0dbf5058d67e5 (diff)
upstream: produce a useful error message if the user's shell is set
incorrectly during "match exec" processing. bz#2791 reported by Dario Bertini; ok dtucker OpenBSD-Commit-ID: cf9eddd6a6be726cb73bd9c3936f3888cd85c03d
Diffstat (limited to 'readconf.c')
-rw-r--r--readconf.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/readconf.c b/readconf.c
index 27b535e1..d1b7871e 100644
--- a/readconf.c
+++ b/readconf.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $OpenBSD: readconf.c,v 1.307 2019/06/28 13:35:04 deraadt Exp $ */
+/* $OpenBSD: readconf.c,v 1.308 2019/08/09 05:05:54 djm Exp $ */
/*
* Author: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>
* Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>, Espoo, Finland
@@ -486,6 +486,11 @@ execute_in_shell(const char *cmd)
if ((shell = getenv("SHELL")) == NULL)
shell = _PATH_BSHELL;
+ if (access(shell, X_OK) == -1) {
+ fatal("Shell \"%s\" is not executable: %s",
+ shell, strerror(errno));
+ }
+
/* Need this to redirect subprocess stdin/out */
if ((devnull = open(_PATH_DEVNULL, O_RDWR)) == -1)
fatal("open(/dev/null): %s", strerror(errno));