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Author: Jason Riedel
Date:  
To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: system accounts and /bin/false
Jim you should be able to set all system accounts that you don't login on to
/bin/false.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim" <>
To: "PLUG" <>
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 3:37 PM
Subject: system accounts and /bin/false


> 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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