On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 12:55:21AM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote:
> Ok then I'm out of arguments ;) but I think there is a reason for the packagers
> to setup a lot of dummy users for daemons etc. with /bin/sh instead of
> /bin/false or /dev/null.
I have heard it so argued and remain to be convinced.
I have a cfengine script that overwrites the work of
debian packages in passwd within minutes of an upgrade.
All non-real users get /dev/false for a shell on my
systems. If it breaks some arcane feature... tough.
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