Re: Why not use /bin/noshell? (was Re: Why do system users have valid shells)
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 12:52:19PM +0200, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote:
> I have meant to ask this question for some time too. Specially since some
> distributions (such as RedHat) provide system users with a /bin/noshell
> shell. I'm not sure if this is the same shell as the one provided by Titan
> [1] but IMHO I believe it's a must to have a shell that logs the entry
> attempt to syslog (as opposed to what /bin/false or /bin/true do).
If one isn't available, they are damn easy to write. I've
probably got source laying around somewhere for one I wrote
for NeXT's about a decade ago.
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