On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 01:33:29AM -0700, Chris Ulrich wrote: > I recently got tired of taking care of my own installation of linux > and decided to install debian. So far, I've been pretty happy with it. > > I'm sure I'll have more questions later, but I've got some questions > right now. > > 1: Is it necessary to have all the dead accounts that come in the > distribution password have /bin/sh as the shell? Some, like nobody > and the qmail daemons, aren't suppose to have a real shell, because > people aren't suppose to be able to log in with those IDs. Ever. I > changed my password file, but it seems odd that they would be there > in the first place.
What I do for accounts whose login should not be allowed is make the shell /dev/null. Their connection will be dropped as soon as login exits. Alternatively, you could write a shell script that says "Go away", etc. and then exec's /dev/null or just exits. > I'm sure I think of others -- like where did the fat filesystem > files in the debian kernel sources for 2.0.34 go? fat, msdos, and vfat all work together. You will most likely want to compile your kernel with vfat as a module and make sure that msdos and fat are also compiled, as vfat depends on them. Adam Keys -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
