[arch-general] dbus update - /etc/passwd merge question

mike cloaked mike.cloaked at gmail.com
Thu Dec 6 12:58:19 EST 2012


On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Rodrigo Rivas
<rodrigorivascosta at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Curtis Shimamoto <
> sugar.and.scruffy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Setting a users shell to /sbin/nologin or /bin/false achieves the same
> > thing.
> >
>
> [pedantic]
>
> Actually, there is a difference between `nologin` and `false`: `nologin`
> will print a polite message explaining that the account is not available;
> `false` prints nothing.
>
> [/pedantic]
>
>
Thank you for the helpful explanation and apologies for the accidental top
post in my last post on this.
-- 
mike c


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