[Adduser-devel] Bug#845791: adduser: /bin/false vs /usr/sbin/nologin

[Olaf van der Spek]

Package: adduser
Version: 3.115
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

Some system accounts use /bin/false, most use /usr/sbin/nologin as shell.
adduser --system defaults to /bin/false.. wouldn't it be nicer to default to /usr/sbin/nologin?

Gr,
Olaf

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages adduser depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.59
ii  passwd                 1:4.2-3.2

adduser recommends no packages.

Versions of packages adduser suggests:
ii  liblocale-gettext-perl  1.07-3+b1
ii  perl                    5.24.1~rc3-3

-- debconf information:
  adduser/title:
  adduser/homedir-permission: true