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oh my god, the new colleague at work couldn't open the terminal on his Linux machine because his shell is set to /bin/false. I'm amazed you can even get into the GUI when that's the case…
@hikari The machine probably doesn't have pam_shells.so as part of the PAM requirements, or someone was naughty and added /bin/false to /etc/shells.
@Mayabotics at this organisation, there are a handful of accounts which use this shell. I don't think it's the default but maybe it's used for departed employees or something.
@hikari Makes me wonder what DE stack they're using, since last I checked GDM at least uses $SHELL -c to start the desktop session
@Qyriad it's whatever the default for Ubuntu (20.04 or 22.04, not sure) is