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Date:      Mon, 13 Aug 2001 09:33:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:      David Kirchner <davidk@accretivetg.com>
To:        Ivan Krstic <ike@gnjilux.srk.fer.hr>
Cc:        <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: bin user
Message-ID:  <20010813093238.B38221-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20010813193429.Z3889@gnjilux.cc.fer.hr>

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On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Ivan Krstic wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 01:26:44PM -0400, alexus wrote:
> > is it safe to allow user bin have shell but with password that no one will
> > know?
>
> [snip]
> If the only reason to give the bin user a shell is so you can su to this
> account, there's no need to assign a password at all.

It'd probably be better to leave the shell as /sbin/nologin, and then just
use 'su -m bin' to su to bin.


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