On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 09:41 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 14:59:08 +0200, > Joachim Backes <joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >Anybody sees this too: After applying all F17 updates (including > >gnome-3.4... packages), the GDM login window presents the mysql server > >account on the login screen. Why that? > > Because mysql has a normal shell. > > I think the scheme used is better than using just uid. > > I also wonder about why some of services have valid shells. I know that > Tom Lane indicated that postgres has a shell intentionally as it helps > to be able to su to postgres to do some tasks. Probably mysql is expected > to be used the same way 9as tom packages both). But there were other ones > that seemed suspect to me. The ones I wasn't using I changed to have > a shell of /sbin/nologin. I think this is pretty clearly a bug of mysql or postgres, or rather, it is a natural consequence of the decision to make these accounts usable for login. Ray and I have discussed various options, but no really satisfactory solution has appeared so far. -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
