Bug 436771

Summary: Invalid login shell for BackupPC user
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: S Edwards <edwardss>
Component: BackupPCAssignee: Johan Cwiklinski <fedora>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 8   
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: 3.1.0-2.fc8 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description S Edwards 2008-03-10 12:01:44 UTC 
Description of problem:
The default shell for the BackupPC user appears to be /usr/bin/nologin which
appears to be a non-existent file.

Other packages using nologin specify /sbin/nologin


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.1.0-1.fc8


How reproducible:
Standard install


Steps to Reproduce:
Standard install

  
Actual results:
System did not appear to allow login through this account. However I did not try
manually setting a password for this account to see what happened.


Expected results:
As actual.


Additional info:
This was a result of looking at various security products usage - this account
was flagged as having an invalid shell.

The README.fedora in BackupPC does explicitly state that:

## BackupPC's user
For security reasons, backuppc user cannot log in. If you want to start manual
backup (ie for debugging), you'll need to set it a shell :
usermod -s /bin/bash

I was unsure though whether it actually should have been /sbin/nologin instead
of /usr/bin/nologin so filed this PR to see.
Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2008-04-05 09:01:39 UTC 
BackupPC-3.1.0-2.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2008-04-09 05:18:49 UTC 
BackupPC-3.1.0-2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.