On 5/3/2011 2:50 PM, Timothy J Massey wrote:
> "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <[email protected]> wrote on 05/03/2011
> 01:43:54 PM:
>
> > As (marginally) added security, I give my 'backuppc' /etc/passwd entry
> > the shell '/sbin/nologin' -- which works with sudo but disallows
> > simple 'su' login. So a real shell is not necessary...
>
> This is also the default for the several BackupPC RPM's I've used in the
> past (which was a while ago, so YMMV).
I'm surprised that sudo doesn't honor the user's shell. su can override
it with a command line option, but the issue that prompted this thread
is that the linux/bsd flavors of su take different options.
--
Les Mikesell
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