Russell Nelson wrote:
Faried Nawaz writes:
> And how does someone with /bin/false as their shell put commands in their
> .qmail files?
The sysadmin put /bin/false into /etc/shells, and now ftp lets them
deposit files in their home directory.
Well, yes -- that's what I imagine happened. An admin error.
The only time I saw someone place /bin/false in /etc/shells was when they
had a sendmail-based mailhost and wanted to allow people to run procmail
from their .forwards. Home directories and /var/mail were shared between
the client machines and the mailhost. Perhaps this sysadmin upgraded from
sendmail and didn't fix /etc/shells.
(Though "| xterm -display myhost:0" worked great, too!)
