Hi,
On Monday 18 September 2006 23:42, Matthew Burgess wrote:
> What does everyone here have in their /etc/passwd file for the 'nobody'
> user? I've never had to create one before so I've come up with:
>
> nobody:x:99:99:nobody::
I have "nobody:x:99:99:User nobody:/var/empty:/bin/false"
> FWIW, my Kubuntu system has '/nonexistent' as the home directory and
> /bin/sh as the login shell. Note that passwd(5) states that if the
> command interpreter field is empty, it defaults to the value /bin/sh.
> Maybe it's better to be explicit rather than implicit though?
Yes, i such situations (say security issue) i'd prefer explicit settings, too.
Thomas
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