Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 21:38:18 +0300 From: jari.aalto@cante.net (Jari Aalto+mail.linux) To: Ceri Davies <ceri@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "exim4-daemon-heavy: Use /bin/nologin instead of /bin/false in /etc/passwd" <366546-maintonly@bugs.debian.org>, "pidentd: \[security\] use /bin/nologin instead of /bin/false in /etc/passwd" <366545-maintonly@bugs.debian.org>, "login: please move nologin under /bin directory" <374525@bugs.debian.org>, mstone@debian.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, "openssh-server: \[security\] use /bin/nologin instead of /bin/false" <366541-maintonly@bugs.debian.org>, anibal@debian.org Subject: Re: Bug#366546: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender Message-ID: <E1Fxpms-0003TT-T4@cante> References: <20060509153807.16297.97467.reportbug@cante> <E1FsDxt-0001DV-Nv@cante> <E1FsQpg-0002x9-8H@cante> <20060620050937.GB18750@djedefre.onera>
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| > > | I think that this suggestion should go to upstream as well. Having | > > | nologin in /bin does not make sense only for Debian, of course. | > > | | | FreeBSD-arch AT FreeBSD.org is better for "move x to y" type discussions. | | > Tomasz (shadow upstream) mentioned me that nologin lies in /sbin in | > OpenBSD so that he's tempted to default installing it there. | > | > As already mentioned elsewhere, I have no strong opinion on this for | > what to do in Debian and I'm ready to listen to suggestions and | > various rationales.... | | We (FreeBSD) have only recently moved it from /sbin to /usr/sbin; see | http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=freebsd-current&m=107755834602236&w=2 | for the discussion we had, if it's of any use. Thanks for the URL. About the /sbin comment 1: "Bloating of the root filesystem". I don't see that to be problem here. I think it would be better to keep things logically separate and resserver /usr for other things. About comment 3: There is no reason for nologin(8) to be in /sbin, since it isn't needed in single-user mode", this has weight. However nologin is a system utility it would be better kept directly under root directory, if /sbin is not ideal, then it should go to /bin -- to same place as "login". Jari
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