Re: How come /sbin/nologin is in /etc/shells contradicting the man page?

[Adam Jackson <ajackson redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 13:41 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:

>  > grep ftp /etc/shells
> ftp:x:14:50:FTP User:/var/ftp:/sbin/nologin
> 
> This has led us to hack up the genhomedircon script to remove this from 
> valid shells.

Because if you use /sbin/nologin, rather than say /bin/false, you get a
failure message in syslog.

- ajax