On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:34:52PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > But there are programs that don't use su -s. E.g., custom logins > > (non-anonymous) from wu-ftpd will fail if the login shell is set to > > /bin/false. > > You can add /bin/false to /etc/shells to fix that, but actually it is a > feature to prevent exactly this. login with system user accounts. I find putting /bin/true in /etc/shells gives nicer semantic meaning, since 'true' accounts can still ftp, while 'false' accounts cannot. Of course, everyone should scp these days anyway... Damian -- Damian Gryski | "There is a crack, a crack in everything. dgryski@uwaterloo.ca | That's how the light gets in." gnu / geek / juggler / coder / compsci / crypto / security
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