Adduser and /etc/passwd

Lev Lafayette lev at ivt.com.au
Wed Aug 15 00:57:48 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 20:38 -0400, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Lev Lafayette wrote:
> > Now contrary to what /etc/password suggests there is no /home/vacation
> > directory and there is certainly no way that the vacation user will ever
> > login to use bash but still....
> 
> If you want to be sure they can't login, change the shell to /bin/false
> 
> sudo chsh -s /bin/false vacation
> 

*nods* ...

Just worries me that adduser doesn't parse the information
to /etc/passwd as it should...


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