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Date:      Mon, 13 Aug 2001 13:46:00 -0400
From:      "alexus" <ml@db.nexgen.com>
To:        "David Kirchner" <davidk@accretivetg.com>, "Ivan Krstic" <ike@gnjilux.srk.fer.hr>
Cc:        <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: bin user
Message-ID:  <000b01c1241f$d0e74c90$0d00a8c0@alexus>
References:  <20010813093238.B38221-100000@localhost>

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hm, i like yours is better the only question will it work from crontab?

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Kirchner" <davidk@accretivetg.com>
To: "Ivan Krstic" <ike@gnjilux.srk.fer.hr>
Cc: <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: bin user


> On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Ivan Krstic wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 01:26:44PM -0400, alexus wrote:
> > > is it safe to allow user bin have shell but with password that no one
will
> > > know?
> >
> > [snip]
> > If the only reason to give the bin user a shell is so you can su to this
> > account, there's no need to assign a password at all.
>
> It'd probably be better to leave the shell as /sbin/nologin, and then just
> use 'su -m bin' to su to bin.
>
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