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Bug 70414

Summary:	/etc/shells misses some shells and lists /sbin/nologin
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Tomasz Kepczynski <tomek>
Component:	setup	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.3	CC:	kas, rvokal
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Description Tomasz Kepczynski 2002-08-01 07:54:43 UTC

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Description of problem:
On my PC at least tcsh, csh and ash are missing from /etc/shells file and this
prevents users from ftp login. As far as I remember this change was not
documented in release notes.
Additionally /sbin/nologin is listed as valid shell which I believe is incorrect
and security risk, unless it is there specifically to allow ftp accounts only.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Not relevant	

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2002-08-12 19:11:48 UTC

Other shells are added in their %post, and /sbin/nologin is intentional.

Comment 2 Phil Knirsch 2007-05-24 13:23:43 UTC

*** Bug 230650 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2007-05-24 13:44:49 UTC

OK then, either the shells(5) manpage should be changed to reflect the fact that
[not] having a shell listed in /etc/shells is no longer a valid criteria for
distinguishing between ordinary users and pseudo users, 

or (better) there should be a hard-linked copy of /sbin/nologin (say
/sbin/nologin-noshells), and system accounts should be changed to have this
shell instead.

I have the following pseudo-accounts with /sbin/nologin shell:

bin daemon adm lp mail uucp operator games gopher ftp nobody rpm vcsa sshd rpc
rpcuser nfsnobody mailnull smmsp pcap radvd postfix dbus haldaemon named nscd