[CentOS] /bin/false as a login shell
Vincent Knecht
vknecht at club-internet.frWed Mar 22 19:05:34 UTC 2006
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Le Mercredi 22 Mars 2006 18:17, Kai Schaetzl a écrit : > 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? I'd say use /sbin/nologin instead. It's already in /etc/shells, and is able to give a reason about why login fails (check its man page for that).
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