From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Jan 31 10:38:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from frond.minions.com (adsl-63-192-211-186.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.192.211.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AB4D14FB6 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 10:38:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bifrost@minions.com) Received: from localhost.minions.com (localhost.minions.com [127.0.0.1]) by frond.minions.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA49387; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 10:37:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bifrost@minions.com) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 10:37:34 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Chuck Robey Cc: Tony Byrne , FreeBSD-alpha mailing list Subject: Re: unable to create login-less user In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > /usr/bin/yes is a much better null shell :) > > Why? Nologin was created especially for this situation, I wonder why you > think yes is better? Nologin is doc'ed in the login(1) man page, too. I guess I should've clarified my statement. /usr/bin/yes is a bit funnier, especially if you're booting people out of your system for {doing something dumb, hacking, etc}. When they login they get blitzed off by a stream of y's. Its not handy when you have legitimate users who've got bad passwords/etc and need them changed. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message