Re: User?s and Shells

From: Brian Hatch (focus-linux@ifokr.org)
Date: 12/19/02

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From: Brian Hatch <focus-linux@ifokr.org>
To: OTERO Hernan Gustavo EDS <bazhgo@techint.net>

    > Looking in the /etc/passwd in my RH 8.0 instalation, the users
    >
    > news:x:9:13:news:/etc/news:
    > rpm:x:37:37::/var/lib/rpm:/bin/bash
    >
    > has shell. Why this users need shell?

    rpm probably doesn't need a shell.

    Note that the user news above doesn't have a shell listed.
    That means that /bin/sh is the shell by default. So you
    have *two* users above who have shells, not one.

    To have no shell, you'd want

            news:x:9:13:news:/etc/news:/nosuchprogram

    or something similar. Many folks use '/bin/false' for
    example. 

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