[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#139066: marked as done (/bin/true as a valid shell?)

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From: Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net>
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Subject: /bin/true as a valid shell?
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Package: passwd
Version: 20000902-9
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

The recent changes to /etc/shells reminded me that I'd changed this 
conffile, and I'd like to see if this change might be considered 
generally useful enough to be included in the package.

On Unix systems in the past, I've been able to distinguish between 
accounts that are allowed to log in (normal shell), accounts that are 
not allowed to log in but are allowed access to other network services 
(/bin/true), and accounts that are needed on the system but should not
be allowed remote access (/bin/false).  IME, this is a very useful 
convention for creating ftp-only accounts; but of course, it depends on 
everyone agreeing that /bin/true should *not* be used as a shell for 
accounts that should be denied ftp access.

Regards,
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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From: Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>
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A few days ago,  I wrote:

> Considering coreutils is Essential: yes, I'm not sure why it should need to
> *register* the shell.  I agree that this bug doesn't belong to passwd,
> though; presumably it did in the distant past. :)


Which basically means that our only option is to close the bug..:-)

/etc/shells is indeed, as you pointed on IRC, no more a conffile.


.../...


then I forgot to really close the bug. Hence doing so.

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