Description of problem: The news account is created with no login shell: news:x:9:13:news:/etc/news: For e.g. this would allow a password to be set, or creation of SSH key files that would then permit this to be used as a login account. Other system accounts use the shell /sbin/nologin to prevent this. The account is created by the setup RPM. The maintainer has requested a review of inn to verify that changing this setting for the account will not cause problems for the inn package. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Reported on RHEL4U4, but verified on FC6 & RHEL5. How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. getent passwd news Actual results: news:x:9:13:news:/etc/news: Expected results: news:x:9:13:news:/etc/news:/sbin/nologin
Hi, I tried to change this setting for the account on RHEL5. The innd is runing without any problems. Now I'm doing some other tests, but it seems to me, that there wouldn't be any problem.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0130.html