On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:24:54PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:34:52PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > But there are programs that don't use su -s. E.g., custom logins > > (non-anonymous) from wu-ftpd will fail if the login shell is set to > > /bin/false. > > Why do you want to use FTP with a system user? [snip]
I don't. I'm just using FTP as an example because once I wanted to use wu-ftpd's chroot login feature, and so I created a (normal) user for it. But since there is no need to login as this user using a normal shell, I set the shell to /bin/false, which didn't work (wu-ftpd couldn't login). Now that somebody mentioned it -- will /bin/true work, or is that a wishlist feature? T -- Let's not fight disease by killing the patient. -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
