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Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!

>> I would advice against giving any clues about account status, for security
>> reasons.

> It's what Linux' /sbin/nologin' prints, too.  Actually it's the whole
> idea of /sbin/nologin' per the man page:

Right you are. However, I haven't seen /bin/nologin used on any Linux box I've
come across in all my Linux experience. :)
It was /bin/false for accounts you don't want to be logged in locally.


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 17.10.2011, <17:58>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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