On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:10:44PM -0700, James Hamilton wrote: > I'm curious why system users such as bin, sys, and nobody have /bin/sh > as a shell instead of a noshell program or /bin/false. [snip]
Possibly because otherwise, you cannot run any shell scripts as that user. (This may also apply to more than shell scripts, but I'm not sure about that.) T -- We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. -- Robert Wilensk