On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 02:45:56AM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: > this may be a dumb question, but I really wonder if there's a policy > (which I obviously haven't found) about which system users should get > a valid shell and which shouldn't.
This is bug #330882, and is basically because I'm exceptionally conservative when it comes to base-passwd and it's rather hard to tell whether anything in Debian might be relying on any of those users having a valid shell. I'm willing to change these, but I'd like to do it on a case-by-case basis after scanning the archive for potential problems. At the moment I'm not even sure how to begin that scan ... Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
