Added function to get the shell for a given user, and a wrapper function to check if login is disabled for the given user (needed to fix games eclass, see bugzilla).

1 files changed, 34 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/eclass/portability.eclass b/eclass/portability.eclass
index df39de4119a4..5213b8342fe2 100644
--- a/eclass/portability.eclass
+++ b/eclass/portability.eclass
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2005 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/eclass/portability.eclass,v 1.6 2005/12/14 18:46:50 flameeyes Exp $
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/eclass/portability.eclass,v 1.7 2005/12/14 19:52:22 flameeyes Exp $
 #
 # Author: Diego Pettenò <flameeyes@gentoo.org>
 #
@@ -79,6 +79,39 @@ egethome() {
 	esac
 }
 
+# Gets the shell for the specified user
+# it's a wrap around egetent as the position of the home directory in the line
+# varies depending on the os used.
+#
+# To use that, inherit eutils, not portability!
+egetshell() {
+	ent=$(egetent passwd "$1")
+
+	case ${CHOST} in
+	*-darwin*|*-freebsd*|*-dragonfly*)
+		# Darwin, OSX, FreeBSD and DragonFly use position 9 to store homedir
+		cut -d: -f10 <<<${ent}
+		;;
+	*)
+		# Linux, NetBSD and OpenBSD use position 6 instead
+		cut -d: -f7 <<<${ent}
+		;;
+	esac
+}
+
+# Returns true if specified user has a shell that precludes logins
+# on whichever operating system.
+is-login-disabled() {
+	shell=$(egetshell "$1")
+
+	case ${shell} in
+		/bin/false|/usr/bin/false|/sbin/nologin|/usr/sbin/nologin)
+			return 0 ;;
+		*)
+			return 1 ;;
+	esac
+}
+
 # Gets the name of the BSD-ish make command (pmake from NetBSD)
 #
 # This will return make (provided by system packages) for BSD userlands,