Have 'salloc' use $SHELL or /bin/sh as the fallback shell.
This is useful in situations where glibc’s Name Service Switch (NSS) is
dysfunctional (with ‘getpwuid’ returning NULL), which can happen when
/etc/nsswitch.conf specifies plugins that fail to be loaded in user code, for
instance because user code is linked against an incompatible libc.
Similar patch submitted upstream: https://bugs.schedmd.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19896
diff --git a/src/salloc/opt.c b/src/salloc/opt.c
index f535600..848f099 100644
--- a/src/salloc/opt.c
+++ b/src/salloc/opt.c
@@ -333,8 +333,10 @@ static char *_get_shell(void)
if (uid == SLURM_AUTH_NOBODY)
uid = getuid();
- if (!(shell = uid_to_shell(uid)))
- fatal("no user information for user %u", uid);
+ if (!(shell = uid_to_shell(uid))) {
+ shell = getenv("SHELL") ?: "/bin/sh";
+ warning("no user information for user %u, using '%s' as the shell", opt.uid, shell);
+ }
return shell;
}