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Improve login shell heuristics #5588

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5 changes: 4 additions & 1 deletion notebook/notebookapp.py
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Expand Up @@ -1160,7 +1160,10 @@ def _update_webapp_settings(self, change):
""")
)
terminado_settings = Dict(config=True,
help=_('Supply overrides for terminado. Currently only supports "shell_command".'))
help=_('Supply overrides for terminado. Currently only supports "shell_command". '
'On Unix, if "shell_command" is not provided, a non-login shell is launched '
"by default when the notebook server is connected to a terminal, a login "
"shell otherwise."))

cookie_options = Dict(config=True,
help=_("Extra keyword arguments to pass to `set_secure_cookie`."
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23 changes: 13 additions & 10 deletions notebook/terminal/__init__.py
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@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
import os
import sys

import terminado
from ..utils import check_version
Expand All @@ -18,16 +19,18 @@ def initialize(nb_app):
default_shell = 'powershell.exe'
else:
default_shell = which('sh')
shell = nb_app.terminado_settings.get('shell_command',
[os.environ.get('SHELL') or default_shell]
)
# Enable login mode - to automatically source the /etc/profile
# script, but only for non-nested shells; for nested shells, it's
# superfluous and may even be harmful (e.g. on macOS, where login
# shells invoke /usr/libexec/path_helper to add entries from
# /etc/paths{,.d} to the PATH, reordering it in the process and
# potentially overriding virtualenvs and other PATH modifications)
if os.name != 'nt' and int(os.environ.get("SHLVL", 0)) < 1:
shell_override = nb_app.terminado_settings.get('shell_command')
shell = (
[os.environ.get('SHELL') or default_shell]
if shell_override is None
else shell_override
)
# When the notebook server is not running in a terminal (e.g. when
# it's launched by a JupyterHub spawner), it's likely that the user
# environment hasn't been fully set up. In that case, run a login
# shell to automatically source /etc/profile and the like, unless
# the user has specifically set a preferred shell command.
if os.name != 'nt' and shell_override is None and not sys.stdout.isatty():
shell.append('-l')
terminal_manager = nb_app.web_app.settings['terminal_manager'] = TerminalManager(
shell_command=shell,
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