Re: /etc/shells policy?
Luis Francisco Gonzalez <luisgh@cogs.susx.ac.uk> writes:
> The question is what should I do. AFAIK, /etc/shells is used to determine
> which shells can be used with chsh. I am not aware of any other use. I think
> it makes perfect sense that shells (un)register themselves in that file upon
> installation and in the pre-removal of the package. If the shell is used by
> some user (as shown in the /etc/passwd file) it should probably refuse to
> remove the package.
BTW, /etc/shells is also used by (at least) the FTP server; users
whose login shell is not in /etc/shells are not allowed to use FTP.
Carl Witty
cwitty@newtonlabs.com
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