On Tuesday 30 June 2009 19:54:23 Michael Higgins wrote: > Can anyone speculate as to why this error? > > Is the fix to usermod -s /sbin/nologin for each of these? > > > ebuild log for sys-apps/baselayout-2.0.1 on evolone.org > > > WARN: postinst > The following users have non-existent shells! > apache - /usr/sbin/nologin > cron - /usr/sbin/nologin > ldap - /usr/sbin/nologin > postfix - /usr/sbin/nologin > sshd - /usr/sbin/nologin
Do not make any changes, this is correct. System users should not have a shell, as the account is never used to log in (not the same thing as dropping privileges to the UID of the account). This is a prime example of a daft ebuild. The ebuild should have checked that a) the account does not have a shell and b) the account uid falls in the range of system accounts as per login.defs and c) therefore issued no postinst You should file a bug. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
