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bug#23971: Nobody has a shell


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: bug#23971: Nobody has a shell
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 00:01:40 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux)

Vincent Legoll <address@hidden> skribis:

> address@hidden ~/guix-packages$ grep nobody /etc/passwd
> nobody:x:65534:997::/var/empty:/gnu/store/7cdd8s466qyjh64m0byq0rz9gk1jid40-bash-4.3.42/bin/bash
>
> On my debian, this user is left out the door:
>
> $ grep nobody /etc/passwd
> nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
>
> Even its HOME directory is non existent, purposedly...

Indeed, fixed in 2d94702ff4133606cda1e51a2c8378a8e79afb9d.

The ‘shell’ field was omitted from the definition of “nobody”, which is
why it ended up using Bash, which is the default shell.

Thanks!

Ludo’.





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