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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Subject: Re: bin/2464: adduser claims /nonexistent is an invalid shell
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The following reply was made to PR bin/2464; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: andrew@ugh.net.au
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/2464: adduser claims /nonexistent is an invalid shell
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 19:02:32 +0100

 As andrew@ugh.net.au wrote:
 
 > When you run adduser it complains that /nonexistent is an invlaid shell.
 
 It's right on this.
 
 > While it is an invalid shell adduser used to have an exception for it as
 > it was great to give non loginable accounts.
 
 Use /sbin/nologin.
 
 Errrm.  Use it only after adding a `-p' in the first line. :-)
 
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