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Authored by des on May 11 2025, 2:50 PM.
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Summary

If the user accepts our offer of a shell to perform final configuration
tasks before rebooting, start a login shell. This ensures it will have
the correct PATH and be able to install packages without issues.

MFC after: 3 days

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des requested review of this revision.May 11 2025, 2:50 PM
This revision is now accepted and ready to land.May 11 2025, 3:19 PM
This revision now requires changes to proceed.May 11 2025, 3:21 PM
usr.sbin/bsdinstall/scripts/auto
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would /usr/bin/login -f root not be better to accomplish this?

usr.sbin/bsdinstall/scripts/auto
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I guess, but this seemed less risky. Also, login has additional side effects, like updating utmpx.

I didn't realize we had added -l to /bin/sh.

LGTM

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.May 11 2025, 3:55 PM
des marked an inline comment as done.May 11 2025, 8:59 PM