Hello, Alan!
On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
>Using /bin/true is bad practice. Many shells implement it as a script.
>Telnet allows environment variables to be passed when does often allow
>/bin/true shell users to execute commands.
>
>Use either
> /dev/null
>
>or very handily use
>
> /bin/passwd
>
>Then users can login with telnet, but only to set passwords.
Btw, I used the following wrapper for the shell. Sometimes it is
required for shell to be real, for example if some program forwarding is
required.
Bye.
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