<quote who="Christopher Booth">

> looking through other users, it seems common to use /bin/false and /bin/true as 
>command interpreters.
> 
> Is this common ?
> 
> 
It is a common thing to do when the accounts should never be used for
login.

Both /bin/false and /bin/true return immediately, doing nothing, so drop
straight back to the login prompt even if you do manage to somehow get 
past the login prompt for those accounts.

J.

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