# coding: utf-8 # shells.py - functions for validating user shells # # Copyright (C) 2013 Arthur de Jong # # This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public # License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either # version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. # # This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU # Lesser General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public # License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA # 02110-1301 USA import ctypes import ctypes.util import os import sys def list_shells(): """List the shells from /etc/shells.""" libc = ctypes.CDLL(ctypes.util.find_library("c")) libc.setusershell() while True: shell = ctypes.c_char_p(libc.getusershell()).value if not shell: break yield shell libc.endusershell() def shellexists(shell): """Check if the provided shell exists and is executable.""" return os.path.isfile(shell) and os.access(shell, os.X_OK) def check(shell, asroot=False): """Check if the specified shell is valid and exit if it isn't.""" # if the shell is listed in /etc/shells, everything should be OK if shell in list_shells(): return # if we are not root, bail out if not asroot: if not shell: # FIXME: print to stderr print '%s: empty shell not allowed' % sys.argv[0] else: # FIXME: print to stderr print '%s: %s is an invalid shell' % (sys.argv[0], shell) sys.exit(1) # warn if something seems wrong if not shell: # FIXME: print to stderr print '%s: Warning: setting empty shell' % sys.argv[0] elif not shellexists(shell): print '%s: Warning: %s does not exist' % (sys.argv[0], shell)