En réponse à Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Anything that is not a real user can have its shell set to /bin/false. > In fact, depending on how your system is set up, you could probably > even > set root's shell to /bin/false.
ok > Just make sure that you have some way > of doing stuff as root (e.g. sudo), > and that you don't kill single > mode. (Never tried this, but I don't see why you couldn't do this.) ok for sudo, but what do you mean by "don t kill single mode"? > So daemon, bin, sys, ftp, www-data, mail, mysql, etc. can probably be > set to /bin/false. (Why does Debian not do this by default?) i just tried to put /bin/false in /etc/passwd for ftp, www-data, mysql, man and that s ok. i ll try to do so for daemon, bin and sys at home (i prefer than to do this at work :p) > I don't know what the sync user is for, though, so I don't know if you > can set it to /bin/false. /bin/sync looks like it was put there for a > reason. yes, you re right too. sync is called by updated to flush the filesystem buffers every 30 seconds. i ll tell you what about daemon, bin and sys soon. thanks for all ;D ----- Ivan R. sysadmin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]