Re: www-data user

[Robert Vangel <robert@vangelr.net.au>]

Marty wrote:
> Alvin Oga wrote:
>
> > assuming you did not have any www data loss, you can recreate the userID
> >
> > root# useradd -u 33 -g 33 -c "www user" -d /var/www -s /bin/false 
> > www-data
>
>
> On my sarge systems the www-data shell is /bin/sh.  Has the default 
> configuration changed, and are my systems misconfigured from a security 
> standpoint?

Shell is /bin/sh on mine. Using /bin/false just to add some security 
through obscurity I suppose...

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