I have a suggestion for improving Red Hat linux (I've actually seen this in OpenBSD): Red Hat Linux adds many pseudo-users (for example named, squid, ident, rpc, rpcuser, etc.). It adds these pseudo-users with /bin/false shell. I suggest to add the /sbin/nologin program to the system, and use this as the default shell of the pseudo-users. Then you can make /sbin/nologin to complain loudly when it is executed. User can thus spot possible break-in attempts. -Yenya
We're discussing it.
Fixed in pidentd-3.0.12-5 - /sbin/nologin was added to util-linux-2.11a-4