> Hello,
>
> I have a suggestion for improving Red Hat linux (I've actually seen
> this in OpenBSD): Red Hat Linux adds many pseudo-users (for example
> named, squid, ident, rpc, rpcuser, etc.). It adds these pseudo-users
> with /bin/false shell. I suggest to add the /sbin/nologin program to the
> system, and use this as the default shell of the pseudo-users. Then you
> can make /sbin/nologin to complain loudly when it is executed. User can
> thus spot possible break-in attempts.
>
> What do you think about it?
Sounds good to me. A shell script would do fine - use the logger command to report.
Maybe sleep for a while to limit the rate of attempts.
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