[systemd-devel] [PATCH] Add SHELL environment variable

[Colin Walters]

On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 21:01 -0500, Evan Callicoat wrote:

> Ideally in the long-term, applications which rely on SHELL being set
> should be fixed to just grab it from getpwnam() or similar,
> but until that becomes more common, I propose this simple change to
> make user sessions a little bit nicer out of the box.

Right; this is exactly the kind of thing that would be fixed by having
logind run the PAM stack and pass the environment/state to systemd-user.