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Re: Why does the user 'nobody' have a shell?



On 7/1/2000 Ben Gertzfield wrote:

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.

another thing, I had installed qmail on a redhat system and the install scripts created the qmail uses with the shell set to /bin/true, debian gives all the qmail uids /bin/sh

Ethan


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