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Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 22:29:50 +0100
From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc master.passwd
References: <199812021517.HAA11694@freefall.freebsd.org> <19981202214708.A23000@gvr.org> <19981203001601.A42552@nagual.pp.ru>
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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

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