A couple of things. This is really cool. However, please remember to Being an essential binary we really something to checksum this against.

At least test by bashing into bash after you install it.

I forgot to make this executable and had to boot into rescueos to fix.

Also, last thing is if, and I aren't %100 sure about this, it seems to work best in installed into /bin rather than /usr/bin. Reason being if you use the special three finger shortcut (shift-ctrl-x) for the X-terminal it seems to crash the phone

upload to extras-devel?

Are you using /bin/sh = /bin/bash or what? AFAIK this has never worked with Maemo.
If your using bash as your user shell (in /etc/passwd) then I *suppose* that it should work, but I haven't tried it. I actually don't need or use bash on the N900. The version I've posted is for those who feel the need to have the latest and/or for those who are actually affected by the shellshock vulnerability (i.e. nobody .

Re. extras-devel. Not me. I once tried to get something there and had to request and account who-knows-where (garage or whatever) and heard nothing ever since. For all I care, the maemo repositories are static and read-only. If I need something that is not there I'll just do it myself and (if I'm nice) post the binary here.

I still don't know if it's a problem of time, money or politics, but something tells me we (if there's a we, a community) should have a repository and a forum and a wiki completely independent of anything we've had in the past. I don't know why we need this "garage" or anything owned/damaged by Nokia or or or.

But anyway, this is off-topic.

That's actually an excellent idea. Self-maintained garage. One less job for the Council to do.

Reinob, your contribution is welcome and precious for this community.
Every contribution is welcome!
I don't know which was the problem with garage the last time you tried, but i think that we (techstaff) can help you if something goes wrong at first.

garage - builder - extras is a complex env that i would not define "perfect", most of times, when something goes wrong, it's not about politics but it's something that we can cure with a chown or chmod.

While you're at it, please make it possible to log into the wiki with the forum account or similar.

Currently I get this:And I see no obvious way to create an account for the wiki.

I guess my garage account would work if I had one. But garage requires me to specify my full name. I won't give my real name here and I see no point in making one up. So whenever I wan't to edit the wiki I do it as an IP, which in turn requires me to use TOR or some other obfuscation technique because I don't like to have my IP on show for everyone.

@sulu
afaik you can create a garage account also without specifing exactly you personal details. I can understand that someone may have real reasons to avoid to expose these details.

OK, I checked. I do have an account in garage, but I once requested upload priviledges (I think it was for rsync), and never got a response.

I used this form: https://garage.maemo.org/extras-assi...tation_request

I have sent another request just now concerning rsync, bash and ngp. As time goes (and if this works reasonably well without wasting a lot of time) I might upload other stuff (like a working nano, newer openssh, etc.)

Good luck with that. In an attempt to prevent spam, tech staff have put an aggressive block on both the wiki and bug tracker on IP addresses known malicious activity and these include Tor IP addresses.

I expressed my concerns this thread but they seem to have fallen on deaf ears. Oh well, now I just take it as if the wiki is a non-existent resource.

A couple of silly mistakes no doubt. Presented for all to see.
No symlink from bash -> sh. Changed to bash in /etc/passwd for user and root.