[CentOS] /bin/false as a login shell

Kai Schaetzl

maillists at conactive.com
Wed Mar 22 17:17:11 UTC 2006


I see that /bin/false is not a valid shell by default on CentOS. It is 
f.i. on Suse. /bin/false is present, though. Is there a security reason 
for this? man says that nologin gives feedback that the account is not 
available while false just exits false. Anything against just adding 
/bin/false to /etc/shells?

Kai

-- 
Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany
Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com






More information about the CentOS mailing list