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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>
Cc: 23971-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23971: Nobody has a shell
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 00:01:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874m7tjiyj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEwRq=p6rqdjAVc6xU24Rhn9cWVXOzF-44SOuL0naxj+Rr2X_Q@mail.gmail.com> (Vincent Legoll's message of "Wed, 13 Jul 2016 12:10:18 +0200")

Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com> skribis:

> vince@guixsd ~/guix-packages$ grep nobody /etc/passwd
> nobody:x:65534:997::/var/empty:/gnu/store/7cdd8s466qyjh64m0byq0rz9gk1jid40-bash-4.3.42/bin/bash
>
> On my debian, this user is left out the door:
>
> $ grep nobody /etc/passwd
> nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
>
> Even its HOME directory is non existent, purposedly...

Indeed, fixed in 2d94702ff4133606cda1e51a2c8378a8e79afb9d.

The ‘shell’ field was omitted from the definition of “nobody”, which is
why it ended up using Bash, which is the default shell.

Thanks!

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-13 22:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-13 10:10 bug#23971: Nobody has a shell Vincent Legoll
2016-07-13 22:01 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-07-14 10:25   ` Vincent Legoll
2016-07-14 18:36     ` Efraim Flashner
2016-07-14 20:10     ` Leo Famulari
2016-07-15  7:30       ` Vincent Legoll
2016-07-15 13:03     ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-23  6:48       ` Vincent Legoll

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