-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 25 November 2002 9:34 pm, H. S. Teoh wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:53:22PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > > 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.) > > > > sudo, start-stop-daemon, su -s > > > > Why can't people read man pages before replying? > > [snip] > > But there are programs that don't use su -s. E.g., custom logins > (non-anonymous) from wu-ftpd will fail if the login shell is set to > /bin/false. This, of course, is probably a bug, but I suspect a lot of > things will break if (some) system users have no shell. > I remember trying to set all(most/some) system accounts to /bin/false and the only thing I noticed breaking was fetchmail. Of course there may have been others, but fetchmail persuaded me to revert to /bin/sh.
Would it be worth filing a bug about this? - -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE94z2YYsCKa6wDNXYRAgesAJ4wSUV6Nc6SESWZC1ObDRvK27i18wCfXlAz llLPDoAOcFxhhLA/4GI0f0k= =bNH+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
