Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 10:30:01 -0800 (PST) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/2464: adduser claims /nonexistent is an invalid shell Message-ID: <199701121830.KAA09327@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/2464; it has been noted by GNATS. From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: andrew@ugh.net.au Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/2464: adduser claims /nonexistent is an invalid shell Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 19:02:32 +0100 As andrew@ugh.net.au wrote: > When you run adduser it complains that /nonexistent is an invlaid shell. It's right on this. > While it is an invalid shell adduser used to have an exception for it as > it was great to give non loginable accounts. Use /sbin/nologin. Errrm. Use it only after adding a `-p' in the first line. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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