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From: andrew@ugh.net.au
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Subject: adduser claims /nonexistent is an invalid shell
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>Number:         2464
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       adduser claims /nonexistent is an invalid shell
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jan 12 08:50:02 PST 1997
>Closed-Date:    Tue Aug 26 15:47:58 PDT 1997
>Last-Modified:  Tue Aug 26 15:48:48 PDT 1997
>Originator:     Andrew Stevenson
>Release:        2.2-BETA_A
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD sally.ugh.net.au 2.2-BETA_A FreeBSD 2.2-BETA_A #0: Sat Jan 11 22:19:46
EST 1997	andrew@sally.ugh.net.au:/usr/src/sys/compile/SALLY	i386
>Description:
When you run adduser it complains that /nonexistent is an invlaid shell.
While it is an invalid shell adduser used to have an exception for it as
it was great to give non loginable accounts.
>How-To-Repeat:
Runn adduser when accounts in /etc/master.passwd have /nonexistent as
their shell.
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: andrew@ugh.net.au
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/2464: adduser claims /nonexistent is an invalid shell
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 19:02:32 +0100

 As andrew@ugh.net.au wrote:
 
 > When you run adduser it complains that /nonexistent is an invlaid shell.
 
 It's right on this.
 
 > While it is an invalid shell adduser used to have an exception for it as
 > it was great to give non loginable accounts.
 
 Use /sbin/nologin.
 
 Errrm.  Use it only after adding a `-p' in the first line. :-)
 
 -- 
 cheers, J"org
 
 joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: wosch 
State-Changed-When: Tue Aug 26 15:47:58 PDT 1997 
State-Changed-Why:  
The problem does not exist any more in -current. 
>Unformatted:
