changing 'nobody' shell to /bin/bash

Andrew L. Gould algould
Mon May 17 11:56:47 PDT 2004


On Friday 12 December 2003 10:07 am, Kurt Wall wrote:
> Consuming 1.7K bytes, Net Llama! blathered:
> > >I'd have to ask why before making a judgement.
> >
> > I'm just fighting with Engineering at my place of employment over their
> > requirements for a software release.  They wanted the real shell for
> > nobody, and i've been pushing back.
>
> Hm. Engineering should have to make a case why the least access principle
> doesn't apply. I'd say keep pushing back.

Because you can do really nifty things under the most access principle!
<slaps self>

>
> Kurt



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