[Centos] how to change default shell when using adduser/useradd

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 21.02.2005 schrieb Alex White um 16:08:

Hi Alex!

> Haven't seen you around in a long time. What's the haps man?

A bit busy in the last weeks - and did post enough in the last year on
the Fedora list ;)

> Here's a side question in relation to the shell. Which 
> convention is more correct, or does it even matter. /bin/false 
> or /bin/nologin?

With the /sbin/nologin shell you get a feedback that the account login
is disabled. /bin/false is just silent. What you use depends on specific
target. For login-less FTP user account for example I prefer /bin/false.

Alexander


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