Question regarding /etc/passwd

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Rick Stevens wrote:
> 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.
>   
+1
> Note that if the shell No, you can't run anything that needs a shell or
> stdin/stdout/stderr.
>   
Other solution is to replace the x from /etc/passwd password column with 
* which means no terminal.

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Daniel