How come /sbin/nologin is in /etc/shells contradicting the man page?
Adam Jackson
ajackson at redhat.com
Tue May 22 17:52:07 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 13:41 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> > grep ftp /etc/shells
> ftp:x:14:50:FTP User:/var/ftp:/sbin/nologin
>
> This has led us to hack up the genhomedircon script to remove this from
> valid shells.
Because if you use /sbin/nologin, rather than say /bin/false, you get a
failure message in syslog.
- ajax
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