This was requested in https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/42333.
Indeed, this integration is using three levels of systemd magick, so
doing this correctly is not obvious. Let's include specific instructions
to help people for whom this integration is causing problems.
If - for whatever reason - a script uses set -u (nounset) and includes
/etc/profile.d/70-systemd-shell-extra.sh (e.g. transitively via
/etc/profile) the script would fail with:
/etc/profile.d/70-systemd-shell-extra.sh: line 15: SHELL_PROMPT_PREFIX: unbound variable
For example:
$ cat > foo.sh <<EOF
#!/bin/sh
set -u
source /etc/profile
EOF
$ chmod 700 foo.sh
$ ./foo.sh
/etc/profile.d/70-systemd-shell-extra.sh: line 15: SHELL_PROMPT_PREFIX: unbound variable
Fix this by using shell parameter substitution[^1] (which is a POSIX
shell concept) to set the $SHELL_* variables to the empty string if
undefined.
[^1]: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2018edition/utilities/V3_chap02.html