On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 09:07:28AM -0700, Bevan C. Bennett wrote:
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 09:07:28 -0700
From: "Bevan C. Bennett" <bevan(a)fulcrummicro.com>
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
Subject: Re: is /dev/null a vaild Home Directory??
Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
Ow Mun Heng wrote:
>Hi,
>
> I'm creating a bunch of users on the server that only needs to have
>samba file share access. Their Shell is /sbin/nologin.
>
>Currently, all of them have home directories, which I do not want.
>Can I put in /dev/null as their default home directory??
I've always used /dev/null for non-users that don't need to store any
regular user config files and haven't had a problem yet.
I don't know if it's the recommended method, but it certainly seems to work.
I have also used it as far back as I can recall.
Just curious what does "pwck" tell you?
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T o m M i t c h e l l
/dev/null the ultimate in secure storage.