Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 2 Dec 1998 22:29:50 +0100
From:      Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>
To:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc master.passwd
Message-ID:  <19981202222950.B23308@gvr.org>
In-Reply-To: <19981203001601.A42552@nagual.pp.ru>; from Andrey A. Chernov on Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 12:16:01AM %2B0300
References:  <199812021517.HAA11694@freefall.freebsd.org> <19981202214708.A23000@gvr.org> <19981203001601.A42552@nagual.pp.ru>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 12:16:01AM +0300, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
> 
> Because it can be created by hacker making fully functional login in
> general. With /sbin/nologin shell this change needed just for consistency
> for automatic checking of validity of user home dirs through passwd. The
> next argument is that other /sbin/nologin entries use existen directories
> too, so this change make operator more common-looking. 
> 

Hmm...the absence of a valid home dir is IMHO a feature of those types of
accounts. Why not change the others so they also have a nonexistant home dir.

Automatic checking of home dirs should include a check against having 
/sbin/nologin as a shell...

-Guido

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19981202222950.B23308>