Aaron Toponce <aaron.topo...@gmail.com> writes: > Further discussion however shows that other than root, system users > don't have login shells, and as such, won't process the /etc/profile > file. Also, because root has its own UPG, there's really no need for the > logic. My only question is then, why is their default shell /bin/sh, and > not /bin/false or /usr/sbin/nologin if they indeed are not login shells?
Because the further discussion was wrong. System users have login shells in Debian. (I consider this a very long-standing bug.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87pr0vg07c....@windlord.stanford.edu
