Question regarding /etc/passwd 2006-08-04 - By Rick Stevens
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On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 09:35 -0700, Waldher, Travis R wrote:
> If in the shell location of an account, a /dev/null entry is placed.
>
> The account can't login, as there is no shell to login to. Correct?
>
> Can scripts, etc. be executed as that account? If so, how? I'm
> assuming via su.
Uh, the more proper thing to do is make the shell either /sbin/nologin
or /sbin/noaccess (whichever is appropriate to your system) or the old
standby, /bin/false. I wouldn't set it to /dev/null.
Note that if the shell No, you can't run anything that needs a shell or
stdin/stdout/stderr.
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