On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 22:34, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Possibly because otherwise, you cannot run any shell scripts as that
user. (This may also apply to more than shell scripts, but I'm not sure
about that.)
sudo, start-stop-daemon, su -s
Why can't people read man pages before replying?
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On Monday 25 November 2002 9:34 pm, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:53:22PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 20:39, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:10:44PM -0700, James Hamilton wrote:
I'm curious why
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, David Pashley wrote:
I remember trying to set all(most/some) system accounts to /bin/false and the
only thing I noticed breaking was fetchmail. Of course there may have been
others, but fetchmail persuaded me to revert to /bin/sh.
Would it be worth filing a bug about
I'm curious why system users such as bin, sys, and nobody have /bin/sh
as a shell instead of a noshell program or /bin/false.
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On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, James Hamilton wrote:
I'm curious why system users such as bin, sys, and nobody have /bin/sh
as a shell instead of a noshell program or /bin/false.
Because a lot of people can't grasp the concept of always using su -s to
select a shell, I think :-)
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One disk to
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:10:44PM -0700, James Hamilton wrote:
I'm curious why system users such as bin, sys, and nobody have /bin/sh
as a shell instead of a noshell program or /bin/false.
[snip]
Possibly because otherwise, you cannot run any shell scripts as that user.
(This may also
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 20:39, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:10:44PM -0700, James Hamilton wrote:
I'm curious why system users such as bin, sys, and nobody have /bin/sh
as a shell instead of a noshell program or /bin/false.
[snip]
Possibly because otherwise, you cannot run
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:53:22PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 20:39, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:10:44PM -0700, James Hamilton wrote:
I'm curious why system users such as bin, sys, and nobody have /bin/sh
as a shell instead of a noshell program or
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:34:52PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
But there are programs that don't use su -s. E.g., custom logins
(non-anonymous) from wu-ftpd will fail if the login shell is set to
/bin/false.
You can add /bin/false to /etc/shells to fix that, but actually it is a
feature to
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:34:52PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
wu-ftpd
HEH.
--Adam
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On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:42:34PM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:34:52PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
But there are programs that don't use su -s. E.g., custom logins
(non-anonymous) from wu-ftpd will fail if the login shell is set to
/bin/false.
You can add
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:34:52PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
But there are programs that don't use su -s. E.g., custom logins
(non-anonymous) from wu-ftpd will fail if the login shell is set to
/bin/false.
Why do you want to use FTP with a system user?
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On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:34:52PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
But there are programs that don't use su -s. E.g., custom logins
(non-anonymous) from wu-ftpd will fail if the login shell is set to
/bin/false.
You can add /bin/false to /etc/shells
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:24:54PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:34:52PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
But there are programs that don't use su -s. E.g., custom logins
(non-anonymous) from wu-ftpd will fail if the login shell is set to
/bin/false.
Why do you want to use
H. S. Teoh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Now that somebody mentioned it -- will /bin/true work, or is that a
wishlist feature?
Is it in /etc/shells?
Here's what you do:
ln -s /bin/false /usr/local/bin/ftponly
echo /usr/local/bin/ftponly /etc/shells
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On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 06:32:13PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
[snip]
Now that somebody mentioned it -- will /bin/true work, or is that a
wishlist feature?
[snip]
Oops, nevermind that. That'll teach me to respond before I read. :-P
T
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