Re: System users and valid shells...
Marc Haber wrote:
> On Fri, 05 May 2006 11:12:35 +0300, Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
> wrote:
> >Richard A Nelson <cowboy@debian.org> writes:
> >> On Wed, 3 May 2006, Colin Watson wrote:
> >> The rest of the system accounts are happily running with /bin/false
> >
> >There is now /bin/nologin which is more secure
>
> You can surely explain why /bin/nologin is more secure than
> /bin/false. I'm eager to learn.
I am curious why any of both would be more secure than /dev/null, a
place which makes it hard to smuggle an infected binary into.
Thiemo
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