[ale] how to create user with no password

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Mon Mar 1 12:17:13 EST 2004


On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 20:32, Michael H. Warfield wrote:

> 
> 	That being said, I also agree that using /bin/false is bad practice,
> not because it's a shell script but because it MIGHT be.  Develop a bad
> habit and switch to another OS and get burned.  Use nologin.

That's the better solution. (barring purchase of The Big Foam Clue Bat
from User Friendly)

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