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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

They should for the sake of duplication, but the 'x' there pretty much 
means there's no way to authenticate to it unless you have the power to 
su without a password (as root or a setuid root program has).

Seth

On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 11:07:28AM +0100, Eric Schabell wrote:
> > /etc/profile.d shouldn't be picked up automatically by the root account, 
> > though, that is a good point.  I prefer my root account prompt to be 
> > totally different than user accounts, too, for example (more than just 
> > $/#).
> > 
> What about /etc/passwd:
> 
> daemon:x:1:1:daemon:/usr/sbin:/bin/sh
> bin:x:2:2:bin:/bin:/bin/sh
> sys:x:3:3:sys:/dev:/bin/sh
> games:x:5:100:games:/usr/games:/bin/sh
> man:x:6:100:man:/var/cache/man:/bin/sh
> lp:x:7:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:/bin/sh
> mail:x:8:8:mail:/var/spool/mail:/bin/sh
> news:x:9:9:news:/var/spool/news:/bin/sh
> uucp:x:10:10:uucp:/var/spool/uucp:/bin/sh
> proxy:x:13:13:proxy:/bin:/bin/sh
> majordom:x:30:31:Majordomo:/usr/lib/majordomo:/bin/sh
> www-data:x:33:33:www-data:/var/www:/bin/sh
> backup:x:34:34:backup:/var/backups:/bin/sh
> operator:x:37:37:Operator:/var:/bin/sh
> list:x:38:38:SmartList:/var/list:/bin/sh
> irc:x:39:39:ircd:/var:/bin/sh
> gnats:x:41:41:Gnats Bug-Reporting System 
> (admin):/var/lib/gnats/gnats-db:/bin/sh
> 
> Shouldn't most of these by /bin/false as login?
> 
> erics



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