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Date:      Sat, 26 Jan 2002 14:51:04 +0000
From:      Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com>
To:        "J.S." <johann@broadpark.no>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /nonexistent and /sbin/nologin
Message-ID:  <20020126145104.B296@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20020126152437.27005e8f.johann@broadpark.no>; from johann@broadpark.no on Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 03:24:37PM %2B0100
References:  <20020126152437.27005e8f.johann@broadpark.no>

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On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 03:24:37PM +0100, J.S. wrote:
> What's the difference between them?

/sbin/nologin is a program -- 'man nologin' to find out what it does.

/nonexistent is a directory that, erm, doesn't exist.  Unless you went and
created it, of course.

They're often used as the shell and home directory, respectively, of users
that aren't allowed to log in.

	Scott

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