Package: accountsservice Version: 0.6.40-3 Severity: normal Hi,
on Debian, the nologin binary can be found under /usr/sbin/nologin, and this is what's used in passwd: $ getent passwd | grep nologin daemon:x:1:1:daemon:/usr/sbin:/usr/sbin/nologin bin:x:2:2:bin:/bin:/usr/sbin/nologin sys:x:3:3:sys:/dev:/usr/sbin/nologin games:x:5:60:games:/usr/games:/usr/sbin/nologin man:x:6:12:man:/var/cache/man:/usr/sbin/nologin lp:x:7:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:/usr/sbin/nologin mail:x:8:8:mail:/var/mail:/usr/sbin/nologin news:x:9:9:news:/var/spool/news:/usr/sbin/nologin uucp:x:10:10:uucp:/var/spool/uucp:/usr/sbin/nologin proxy:x:13:13:proxy:/bin:/usr/sbin/nologin www-data:x:33:33:www-data:/var/www:/usr/sbin/nologin backup:x:34:34:backup:/var/backups:/usr/sbin/nologin list:x:38:38:Mailing List Manager:/var/list:/usr/sbin/nologin irc:x:39:39:ircd:/var/run/ircd:/usr/sbin/nologin gnats:x:41:41:Gnats Bug-Reporting System (admin):/var/lib/gnats:/usr/sbin/nologin nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin sshd:x:116:65534::/var/run/sshd:/usr/sbin/nologin Looking at the accountsservice code though, it uses src/user-classify.c:#define PATH_NOLOGIN "/sbin/nologin" src/user-classify.c: nologin_basename = g_path_get_basename (PATH_NOLOGIN); Ideally this path (and also /sbin/false) could be set via a --configure switch. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (200, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages accountsservice depends on: ii dbus 1.10.2-1 ii init-system-helpers 1.24 ii libaccountsservice0 0.6.40-3 ii libc6 2.19-22 ii libglib2.0-0 2.46.2-1 ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-13 accountsservice recommends no packages. Versions of packages accountsservice suggests: ii gnome-control-center 1:3.18.2-1 -- no debconf information