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

[Jari Aalto+mail.linux]

| > > | I think that this suggestion should go to upstream as well. Having
| > > | nologin in /bin does not make sense only for Debian, of course.
| > > | 
| 
| 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.

Thanks for the URL.

About the /sbin comment 1: "Bloating of the root filesystem".
I don't see that to be problem here. I think it would be
better to keep things logically separate and resserver /usr
for other things.

About comment 3: There is no reason for nologin(8) to be in
/sbin, since it isn't needed in single-user mode", this has
weight.

However nologin is a system utility it would be better kept
directly under root directory, if /sbin is not ideal, then
it should go to /bin -- to same place as "login".

Jari