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



On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 02:39:08PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> 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.
> 
please, let me know which would be the matter in appending it in our
distribution? how many things we (hmm... you) do in debian and that nobody
does in other dists and that make debian so..... debian?

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