dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
it never found the answer. it gaslit me repeatedly about it, then i found something that looked odd ($SHELL not being set because i set the user up by hand and didn't copy over /etc/skel) and when i set it, it worked. i told it that it had to be something else and offered that i'd just noticed $SHELL wasn't set.
it gleefully told me it absolutely definitely wasn't this and that the only solution was to execute the full path. and also that it was a bug in busybox's PATH logic.