[gentoo-dev] [Gentoo/FreeBSD] enewuser and /bin/false shells

[gentoo-dev] [Gentoo/FreeBSD] enewuser and /bin/false shells

[Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò]

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Hi,

As Gentoo/FreeBSD is always improving, I'm thinking is just the case of 
telling everyone how to correctly use enewuser without bailing out 
Gentoo/FreeBSD :)

enewuser is often used with /bin/false as shell to create an user who can't 
login. Unfortunately this doesn't work on Gentoo/FreeBSD (and AFAIK also 
Gentoo/OSX has its own problem).

To avoid this, please pass -1 as option for shell to create a no-login 
account, which is then expanded to the right shell for the right system.

Thanks again,
-- 
Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò
Gentoo Developer - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/
(Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64, Sound, PAM)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo/FreeBSD] enewuser and /bin/false shells

[Alin Nastac]

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Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:

>As Gentoo/FreeBSD is always improving, I'm thinking is just the case of 
>telling everyone how to correctly use enewuser without bailing out 
>Gentoo/FreeBSD :)
>
>enewuser is often used with /bin/false as shell to create an user who can't 
>login. Unfortunately this doesn't work on Gentoo/FreeBSD (and AFAIK also 
>Gentoo/OSX has its own problem).
>
>To avoid this, please pass -1 as option for shell to create a no-login 
>account, which is then expanded to the right shell for the right system.
>  
>
I've made the change for app-mobilephone, net-dialup and net-proxy
categories, but I believe no one will blame you if you make it yourself.


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