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> I think you are correct in this. /bin/false _used_ to be a special "null
> shell" replacement. In RedHat it exists and and does load a bash shell
> to run from.

[mhw at alcove mhw]$ cat /etc/issue
Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla)
Kernel \r on an \m
 
[mhw at alcove mhw]$ file /bin/false
/bin/false: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

[mhw at canyon mhw]$ cat /etc/issue
Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow)
Kernel \r on an \m
 
[mhw at canyon mhw]$ file /bin/false
/bin/false: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
[mhw at canyon mhw]$

	Use to be true.  May still be true on SCO Unix.  :-)  Hasn't been
true on any recent versions of RedHat.

	That being said, I also agree that using /bin/false is bad practice,
not because it's a shell script but because it MIGHT be.  Develop a bad
habit and switch to another OS and get burned.  Use nologin.

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