On Sun, 16 May 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: > 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.)
They have login shells in the sense that their shell field in /etc/passwd is /bin/sh, but if they do not really "login" to the system, then they do not read /etc/profile. In either case, if we plan to set default umask in /etc/login.defs or using PAM, I will happily drop the umask setting from /etc/profile, as we don't need to have the required "logic" by duplicate. -- 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/alpine.deb.1.10.1005170103200.6...@kolmogorov.unex.es
