Re: User?s and Shells

> Looking in the /etc/passwd in my RH 8.0 instalation, the users

rpm probably doesn't need a shell.

Note that the user news above doesn't have a shell listed. That means that /bin/sh is the shell by default. So you have *two* users above who have shells, not one.

To have no shell, you'd want

        news:x:9:13:news:/etc/news:/nosuchprogram

or something similar. Many folks use '/bin/false' for example.

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