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Bug 449555

Summary:	User "news" has no shell in /etc/passwd
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	David Tonhofer <bughunt>
Component:	setup	Assignee:	Ondrej Vasik <ovasik>
Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	5.4	CC:	rvokal, tao
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Description David Tonhofer 2008-06-02 20:40:12 UTC

Description of problem:

Default /etc/passwd file has user "news" with no entry for shell (additionally,
a home directory /etc/news which does not exist)

Should be given /sbin/nologin (i.e. something from /etc/shells), I suppose?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

setup-2.5.58-1.el5

How reproducible:

Always

Comment 2 Ondrej Vasik 2009-02-11 13:43:54 UTC

I'm afraid there is no easy way how to fix that in setup package. Any change would/could cause unwanted inconsistency. In Fedora Rawhide is news user/group no longer created by default by setup, it's created by packages that using it (inn and leafnode) - see rhbz #437462 for details. Assigning /sbin/nologin shell to it in RHEL-5 will cause troubles to inn functionality - as some modifications were needed to make inn work with with /sbin/nologin.

Comment 3 Ondrej Vasik 2009-02-11 14:39:07 UTC

Closing DEFERRED.