"Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backu...@kosowsky.org> wrote on 05/03/2011 01:43:54 
PM:

> As (marginally) added security, I give my 'backuppc' /etc/passwd entry
> the shell '/sbin/nologin' -- which works with sudo but disallows
> simple 'su' login. So a real shell is not necessary...

This is also the default for the several BackupPC RPM's I've used in the 
past (which was a while ago, so YMMV).

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