[PLUG] To login or to not login?

David Pool dpool at hevanet.com
Wed Mar 12 12:48:02 UTC 2003


Derek Loree wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 11:43, Rich Shepard wrote:

>>  The context for this question is that, apparently, Red Hat uses only login
>>shells while slackware and debian don't. It's a pothole in my knowledge that
>>I'd like to fill.
>>
> 
> Not having a RH box handy, I would have to doubt this.  This concept has
> been around for a while, and I know you've at least got /dev/null :)
> 
> Look in your passwd file, what shell is the sshd user assigned to (the
> last entry)?  Or the mysql user? Or the identd user?
> 
> HTH
> 
> Derek Loree

On my RH 8 box its /sbin/nologin

david





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