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Re: Admin perspective: it shouldn't. (was Re: Why does the user 'nobody' have a shell?)



Previously Jim Lynch wrote:
> Then you can set your ftp server so that a user must have a login
> shell to allow ftp sessions, then you have a way to have ftp logins
> without allowing a shell also. Do that by setting the shell to 
> /bin/true. Disable all kinds of logins for a particular user by 
> setting the shell to /bin/false, which logins such as nobody should
> be: no shell, no logins from anywhere. 

This seems to assume you have /bin/true listed in /etc/shells, which
isn't the case usually.

Wichert.

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