[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#374525: Bug#366546: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

Ceri Davies ceri at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jul 4 14:08:26 UTC 2006


On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 07:09:37AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > I've CC'd packages where I've been advogating nologin in Debian. The
> > binary is not yet widely used, so just move it so that we can get full
> > potential of nologin to forthcoming etch.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> >  
> > | I think that this suggestion should go to upstream as well. Having
> > | nologin in /bin does not make sense only for Debian, of course.
> > | 
> > | Tomasz?
> > 
> > Than would be FreeBSD devel list. I'm not sure which list, but I've
> > added CC to:
> > 
> >     freebsd-qa at freebsd.org

FreeBSD-arch at FreeBSD.org is better for "move x to y" type discussions.

> Tomasz (shadow upstream) mentioned me that nologin lies in /sbin in
> OpenBSD so that he's tempted to default installing it there.
> 
> As already mentioned elsewhere, I have no strong opinion on this for
> what to do in Debian and I'm ready to listen to suggestions and
> various rationales....

We (FreeBSD) have only recently moved it from /sbin to /usr/sbin; see
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=freebsd-current&m=107755834602236&w=2
for the discussion we had, if it's of any use.

Ceri
-- 
That must be wonderful!  I don't understand it at all.
                                                  -- Moliere
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