Your Distro is Insecure: Ubuntu

[Alberto Sierra]

I think i know the difference between /bin/sh and /bin/false, but i still
don't know why irc (and some others)  have interactive shells...  are they
needed? what for?

2009/4/14 Ante Karamatić <ivoks at grad.hr>

> U Uto, 14. 04. 2009., u 12:54 -0600, Alberto Sierra je napisao/la:
>
> > Excuse my ignorance, but what is then the idea behind the users with
> > interactive shell instead of a /bin/false or similar?
>
> Try (as root of course):
>
> su irc
> whoami
>
> and then
>
> su klog
> whoami
>
> irc has /bin/sh, klog has /bin/false.
>
>


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Alberto Sierra Reales [aesetres]
IT Consultant
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