Re: system accounts and /bin/false

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Author: Don Calfa
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: system accounts and /bin/false
Jim wrote:

>I have some system accounts for example www-data that instead of
>/bin/false being their shell in /etc/passwd it is set to /bin/sh this is
>how it was after a clean install.
>
>
>Is it safe to set all accounts that do not need to be logged into to
>/bin/false or are there some system accounts pherhaps nobody that needs
>/bin/sh instead of /bin/false?
>
>
>Jim
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Isn't there /bin/nologin?
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