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List:       amanda-hackers
Subject:    Re: amanda needs a bash or /sbin/nologin?
From:       "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin () v ! igoro ! us>
Date:       2013-02-08 14:58:34
Message-ID: CAJtE5vTr_0p0Sm4DHsBC+5N4+2TFcaNwChb49i-bob2hiqyXbg () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 4:14 AM, Petr Hracek <phracek@redhat.com> wrote:
> Dear folks,
>
> I have just a simple question to amanda user.
> As I have observed:
> [root@localhost ~]# grep amanda /etc/passwd
> amandabackup:x:33:6:Amanda user:/var/lib/amanda:/bin/bash
> [root@localhost ~]#
>
> amandabackup has specified bash. Is it bash needed?
> Should not be there a /sbin/nologin?

Gentoo installs Amanda with a locked account, and this is actually
pretty inconvenient, since many of the administrative commands must be
run as Amanda.  So bash, in particular, is not required, but an
interactive shell is.

Dusitn
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