Corinna Vinschen-2 wrote: > > On Oct 14 14:04, Andrey Repin wrote: >> ... >> I would advice against giving any clues about account status, for >> security >> reasons. > > It's what Linux' /sbin/nologin' prints, too. Actually it's the whole > idea of /sbin/nologin' per the man page: > > $ man nologin > NOLOGIN(8) BSD System Manager's Manual > NOLOGIN(8) > > NAME > nologin — politely refuse a login > [...] > > Just `exit 0' should be replaced with `exit 1' since > > [...] > nologin displays a message that an account is not available and exits > non-zero. > > > Corinna > > -- > Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to > Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Red Hat > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >
Nice script! Would be cool if it would be part of cygwin. Btw. was the /etc/nologin.txt your addition? I think the original nologin doesn't even do that. At least not on Debian, where I just checked. Although in general I agree with Andrey. I forgot all about /bin/false. So I am using that now. In fact I checked on my Linux box. I see that most "no-shell" users have /bin/false in /etc/passwd (like ftp or mysql). But others have nologin (e.g. user sshd on my machine). Thanks, gwodus. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Where-is--bin-nologin-tp32647652p32657023.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
