[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#374525: Bug#366546: [Debian] login: please move nologin under /bin directory

[Michael Stone]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 02:08:46PM +0300, Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote:
>| On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 08:52:28AM +0300, Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote:
>| >FHS 2.3 reads
>| >
>| >    <http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#BINESSENTIALUSERCOMMANDBINARIES>
>| >    /bin contains commands that may be used by both the system
>| >    administrator and by users, but which are required 
>| >    when  no other filesystems are mounted (e.g. in single user mode).
>| >          ============================================================
>| [snip]
>| >As Debian follows the FHS, the correct place here seems to be
>| >/bin according to FHS. (as where "login" is also located)
>| 
>| Could you please explain how nologin is required in single user mode?
>
>I was more reading the mounting part if nologin resided on /usr/bin

Ok, still please explain. A system that doesn't have /usr mounted isn't 
a system in normal operation. What about nologin makes it *essential* 
for system recovery or otherwise required for a system in an 
extraordinary state?

Mike Stone