Re: Why does the user 'nobody' have a shell?
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> You can set it to /bin/false though.
If other distros leave it blank, isn't it possible that there is
some software out there somewhere that *depends* on it being
blank (or the default value /bin/sh?) I'm wondering if setting
it to /bin/false would break something.
Anyway, setting it to /bin/sh and making it explicit means the admin
is less prone to make the mistake of thinking that a missing value
means that the user doesn't have a shell.
Ben
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