On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 09:41:34PM -0800, Faried Nawaz wrote:
> 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.
Oh and procmail doesn't allow people to execute stuff thru /bin/sh? :)
> (Though "| xterm -display myhost:0" worked great, too!)
:)
Greetz, Peter.
--
Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder
|
| 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot;
| C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.'
| Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++
