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

[Daniel J Walsh]

Adam Jackson wrote:
> 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
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I guess a better question would be how to tell the difference between a 
valid "user" and a "service" on the system.  Currently SELinux checks if 
uid < 500 (GID_MIN from /etc/login.defs) or a shell from /etc/shells - 
/sbin/nologin.

This is used to make sure the labeling of the home directory is done 
properly.