From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 Description of problem: Add a user call it named. The dialog does not let you specify /bin/nologin Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. add a new user 2. call it named (nobody, foo, xfs...etc) 3. try to change the login shell to /bin/nologin or /bin/false (like xfs) Actual Results: you cannot set the user to nologin also it sets up a home directory path but you can change this also it requires a password and should not Expected Results: It should let you enter in /bin/nologin for users that you do not want an actual login for. I.E. nobody, named, xfs, foo, etc Additional info: in its current stat this is a worthless tool and should be fixed or replaced. workaround is to user useradd..............
Actually, redhat-config-users queries libuser to see what shells are available. self.shells = self.parent.ADMIN.getUserShells() self.shells.sort() self.loginShellCombo.set_popdown_strings(self.shells) default = '/bin/bash' if default in self.shells: self.loginShellCombo.list.select_item(self.shells.index(default)) In 7.2 and 7.3, libuser did not return /bin/nologin as a valid shell choice, but it currently does in our latest internal trees. Actually, it's /sbin/nologin. But at any rate, the behavior in the next release should do what you want. You should be able to grab the latest packages out of Rawhide if you don't want to wait for the next release. Thanks for your report.