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Re: "Small" Bugg



On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 03:45:46AM +0800, da Bobstopper wrote:
> i too think the login shell is useless. i don't see it being required by
> the majority of users, and i do see it being a security problem.

Alternative viewpoint: if you even vaguely care about security and you need
to provide shell access, then you're only going to allow remote users to log
in using ssh, which does its own authentication anyway and thus never gives
you the login shell.

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Adam Sampson
azz@gnu.org


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