Re: /etc/passwd ?

[Petre Daniel <dani@cyber.ro>]

most of them are relics of software that you probably dont need,but be 
carefully what account you erase.
better comment them out.you can put a /etc/NOSHELL instead of /bin/sh or 
even /bin/false and they won't be able to login into the machine no more..

At 06:24 PM 12/27/01 -0600, Daniel Rychlik wrote:
> I was wandering if I edited my /etc/passwd file and replaced all the 
> /bin/sh to /bin/false , will that break anything?
> What Im seeing is accounts like lp, games, uucp, proxy, postgres, and a 
> slew of others that I dont use.
>
> Thanks in advance Debian Guruz!
> Daniel

Petre L. Daniel,System Administrator
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