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Improve login shell heuristics #5588

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@dlukes dlukes commented Jul 6, 2020

A follow-up on #5565, with better heuristics and respecting overrides via NotebookApp.terminado_settings. Cf. #5565 (comment) for details.

I'm wondering whether to also update the documentation for NotebookApp.terminado_settings, so that it makes it clearer what the shell defaults are and how they can be overridden. Something like:

Supply overrides for terminado. Currently only supports "shell_command". On Unix systems, a non-login shell is run by default when the notebook server is launched from a terminal, a login shell otherwise.

But AFAICS, this would also require updating translations, so I'm not sure it's worth the trouble.

Co-authored-by: Kevin Bates <kbates4@gmail.com>
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I think updating the help text would be helpful. I don't think we can worry about translations. The nature of those is that they'll need to be revisited from time to time to reflect updates and we can't let that jeopardize doing the right thing.

The source changes look good and behave as expected, btw.

Thanks David!

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dlukes commented Jul 7, 2020

Good point, agreed :) I updated the help text, feel free to suggest edits, or even perform them directly if you have the bandwidth.

Thanks for the quick response!

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Awesome, thank you!

I think this hits the right balance of:

  • not login shell by dfault in most cases
  • login shell in an easy-to-grasp circumstance that covers common cases (i.e. not a tty)
  • easy to override by setting terminado_settings['shell_command'] = ['shell', '-l'] in config, bypassing the guess above in the circumstances where the guess is wrong (or just don't want to trust it).

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Great - thank you David!

@kevin-bates kevin-bates merged commit 0df10de into jupyter:master Jul 7, 2020
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