[CentOS] /bin/false as a login shell
Aleksandar Milivojevic
alex at milivojevic.orgThu Mar 23 00:19:53 UTC 2006
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Kai Schaetzl wrote: > 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? Just use it if you want. I'd keep it out of /etc/shells. Historically, some network daemons refused to authenticate users if user's shell was not present in /etc/shells.
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