Bug 12409

Summary:	Daemon accounts assigned shell by default
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Blake R. Swopes <bhodi>
Component:	setup	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Version:	6.1	CC:	rvokal
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Description Blake R. Swopes 2000-06-18 04:42:34 UTC

The default installation of Red Hat 6.1 (and possibly others - this may be 
a multiple-vendor issue) does not assign a shell for many of the non-user 
(daemon) accounts (e.g. nobody, bin). If no shell is specified, the shell 
defaults to /bin/sh.

This setting is correct for the xfs account, which assigns /bin/false as 
the shell.

The solution would be to assign these accounts a shell which will not 
permit login, such as /bin/false.

Additionally, /etc/shells does not contain a shell such as /bin/false 
which would deny login, which produces an error when assigning such a 
shell to an account via chsh. This entry could be included to /etc/shells 
in the default installation.

Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-06-18 05:08:45 UTC

Changing to component "setup", which includes the default passwd file.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2001-01-29 18:18:39 UTC

Changing the base of the default password file is not really an option
at this point.