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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: is /dev/null a vaild Home Directory?? > Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > 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? -- T o m M i t c h e l l /dev/null the ultimate in secure storage.
