Re: Why does the user 'nobody' have a shell?
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 06:52:12PM +0000, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> >From man 5 passwd:
>
> The command interpreter field provides the name of the
> user's command language interpreter, or the name of the
> initial program to execute. Login uses this information
> to set the value of the SHELL environmental variable. If
> this field is empty, it defaults to the value /bin/sh.
>
> So really, Debian isn't doing anything here other than making
> the default explicit.
You can set it to /bin/false though.
Marcus
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