nikhilwiz@linux:~ > cat /etc/shells
/bin/ash
/bin/bash
/bin/bash1
/bin/csh
/bin/false
/bin/sh
/bin/tcsh
/usr/bin/csh
/usr/bin/ksh
/usr/bin/passwd
/usr/bin/tcsh
/usr/bin/zsh

i dont see /bin/true anywhere in the list. and still it works. voila?! ;)

Nikhil.

On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 09:21:16AM +0530, Babu Kalakrishnan wrote:
> 
> Probably /bin/true and /bin/false are specified as valid shells in your 
> distro ? RedHat doesn't seem to include them in the /etc/shells as 
> valid shells.

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