On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Ali Jawad wrote: > Just a quick Question, why does apache have a shell in passwd file > on debian ? not sure this answers your question, but you can't use that as a login account since its entry in /etc/shadow has no legal password. so, unless i'm missing something, i guess that /bin/sh could have just as easily have been /bin/false. but i'm willing to be corrected. rday