Why does the "news" account not have its shell set to /sbin/nologin ?
Issue
- The "
news
" account has an empty shell setting in/etc/passwd
rather than have its shell set to/sbin/nologin
.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4 prior to 4.8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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