Why does the user 'nobody' have a shell?
A admin friend of mine just brought this up.
On Debian systems, the user 'nobody' has a shell:
nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/home:/bin/sh
Why is this? I looked on a bunch of other unix systems, and *none* of
them give 'nobody' a shell. (Of course, the account is locked on
Debian as it should be.)
Is there any good reason? If not, should I file a bug? It seems kind
of weird to give a user that is solely created for a non-login user to
have a login shell!
Ben
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