On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:54:16AM +0100, Iago Rubio wrote:
> > Put a non working shell as default for this user.
> > [root@igloo root]# useradd -s /sbin/nologin nopasswd
> That'll make it kind of hard for the user to get any work done, won't it?
You've got a big bunch of users in your system with no login shells, and
they get their work done.
Check your /etc/passwd.
There's users and then there's users. :)
Not wanting regular (human) user accounts to be allowed to work with empty
passwords is a good precaution against accidents. (See
<
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86414>, for an example
of something that could happen.)
Obviously your suggestion is good for system accounts.
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