Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4398 mails)

[Aschwin Marsman <aschwin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

If I look at the file /etc/passwd on my SUSE 9.3 installation
I see the following:

--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------
> head /etc/passwd
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
bin:x:1:1:bin:/bin:/bin/bash
daemon:x:2:2:Daemon:/sbin:/bin/bash
lp:x:4:7:Printing daemon:/var/spool/lpd:/bin/bash
mail:x:8:12:Mailer daemon:/var/spool/clientmqueue:/bin/false
news:x:9:13:News system:/etc/news:/bin/bash
uucp:x:10:14:Unix-to-Unix CoPy system:/etc/uucp:/bin/bash
games:x:12:100:Games account:/var/games:/bin/bash
man:x:13:62:Manual pages viewer:/var/cache/man:/bin/bash
at:x:25:25:Batch jobs daemon:/var/spool/atjobs:/bin/bash
--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------

I would have expected that many more accounts would have
/bin/false as the shell. Why is this not the case?
Is it different (read better) with SUSE 10?

Best regards,
 
Aschwin Marsman
 
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