[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#481727: Bug#481727: fetchmail: Should create its user account with /bin/false as its shell

Nico Golde nion at debian.org
Sun May 18 12:29:29 UTC 2008


Hi Francois,
* Francois Marier <francois at debian.org> [2008-05-18 12:02]:
> Package: fetchmail
> Version: 6.3.8-11
> Severity: minor
> 
> The tiger security package reports a warning about the fetchmail user account:
> 
>   # Performing check of passwd files...
>   NEW: --WARN-- [pass014w] Login (fetchmail) is disabled, but has a valid shell.
> 
> Setting the shell to "/bin/false" should at user creation time should fix this.

Thanks, fixed in svn.

Cheers
Nico
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