On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 20:39, H. S. Teoh wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:10:44PM -0700, James Hamilton wrote: > > I'm curious why system users such as bin, sys, and nobody have /bin/sh > > as a shell instead of a noshell program or /bin/false. > > [snip] > > Possibly because otherwise, you cannot run any shell scripts as that user. > (This may also apply to more than shell scripts, but I'm not sure about > that.)
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