From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 26 6:51:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (mta07-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 377F637B402 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 06:51:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from lungfish.ntlworld.com ([62.253.153.123]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020126145121.SIL6966.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@lungfish.ntlworld.com>; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 14:51:21 +0000 Received: from tuatara.goatsucker.org (tuatara.goatsucker.org [192.168.1.6]) by lungfish.ntlworld.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g0QEpIn33632; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 14:51:18 GMT (envelope-from scott@tuatara.goatsucker.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by tuatara.goatsucker.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0QEp4Z05947; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 14:51:04 GMT (envelope-from scott) Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 14:51:04 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell To: "J.S." Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /nonexistent and /sbin/nologin Message-ID: <20020126145104.B296@localhost> References: <20020126152437.27005e8f.johann@broadpark.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020126152437.27005e8f.johann@broadpark.no>; from johann@broadpark.no on Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 03:24:37PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-RC i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 03:24:37PM +0100, J.S. wrote: > What's the difference between them? /sbin/nologin is a program -- 'man nologin' to find out what it does. /nonexistent is a directory that, erm, doesn't exist. Unless you went and created it, of course. They're often used as the shell and home directory, respectively, of users that aren't allowed to log in. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message