/bin/false as a login shell

[maillists at conactive.com (Kai Schaetzl)]

Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote on Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:19:53 -0600:

> Just use it if you want.  I'd keep it out of /etc/shells.  Historically, 
> some network daemons refused to authenticate users if user's shell was 
> not present in /etc/shells.

Well, vsftpd still does, that's how I came about it. I have always used 
/bin/false on my Suse setups (which has /bin/false in /etc/shells) and am 
currently migrating the first machine to CentOS. So, I noticed the users 
couldn't login via ftp unless I changed to /sbin/nologin. I decided to add 
/bin/false to /etc/shells.

Kai

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