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Re: System users and valid shells...



On May 03, Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de> wrote:

> I get tons of warnings like this when I run tiger(8):
Tools like this need to generate lots of warnings or people may start
thinking that they are useless...

> Security-wise it's probably a good idea to give as few users as possible
> a valid shell, all others should get /bin/false, right?
Security-wise it's probably not relevant.
Admin-wise, having a valid shell helps when using su(8).

> Should I CC debian-security?
No.

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ciao,
Marco

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