Installed system does not work if user's shell is zsh

[Kyle J Cardoza]

The default /etc/profile is for sh and bash; zsh doesn't even look at it. Apparently it does look for /etc/zprofile, so maybe we could patch that if it exists or provide one from the installer? macOS switched to zsh as the primary shell for users a long time ago, and frankly I agree with that choice in the general sense.

[Ted Howard]

FWIW, Slackware has /etc/zprofile as a symlink to /etc/profile

[Ted Howard]

Yeah, in their package, they have this doinst.sh script (that runs when the package installs)

if ! grep zsh etc/shells 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null; then
  echo "/bin/zsh" >> etc/shells
fi
if [ ! -e etc/zprofile ]; then
  ( cd etc ; ln -sf profile zprofile )
fi

[Kyle J Cardoza]

Unfortunately that won't work for us because the syntax for doing in zsh what /etc/profile does is different. We'd need a custom one.

[Ted Howard]

What's different about it? I thought zsh was fully Bourne compatible.

[Kyle J Cardoza]

Try sourcing the FreeBSD /etc/profile from zsh.