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Re: Where is /bin/nologin
Corinna Vinschen-2 wrote:
>
> On Oct 14 14:04, Andrey Repin wrote:
>> ...
>> I would advice against giving any clues about account status, for
>> security
>> reasons.
>
> It's what Linux' /sbin/nologin' prints, too. Actually it's the whole
> idea of /sbin/nologin' per the man page:
>
> $ man nologin
> NOLOGIN(8) BSD System Manager's Manual
> NOLOGIN(8)
>
> NAME
> nologin â politely refuse a login
> [...]
>
> Just `exit 0' should be replaced with `exit 1' since
>
> [...]
> nologin displays a message that an account is not available and exits
> non-zero.
>
>
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Nice script! Would be cool if it would be part of cygwin. Btw. was the
/etc/nologin.txt your addition? I think the original nologin doesn't even do
that. At least not on Debian, where I just checked.
Although in general I agree with Andrey. I forgot all about /bin/false. So I
am using that now. In fact I checked on my Linux box. I see that most
"no-shell" users have /bin/false in /etc/passwd (like ftp or mysql). But
others have nologin (e.g. user sshd on my machine).
Thanks,
gwodus.
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