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Re: is nobody a security hole?

Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote:

> On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Galen Hazelwood wrote:
>
> > The "find" cron.daily script, at least, requires you to be able to su nobody.
> > If I set the shell to /bin/false, you can't su to that account.
>
> Not true.  I use /bin/false as the shell for all system accounts and
> have no trouble using su.

What??

xerxes# grep nobody /etc/passwd
nobody:*:65534:65534:nobody:/tmp:/bin/sh
xerxes# su nobody
xerxes$ whoami
nobody

xerxes# grep nobody /etc/passwd
nobody:*:65534:65534:nobody:/tmp:/bin/false
xerxes# su nobody
xerxes# whoami
root
xerxes# su nobody -c "echo foo"
xerxes# su bin -c "echo foo"
foo

Why does that work for you and not me?

--Galen



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