topic Re: shell in Operating System - HP-UX

shell

Rkumar — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 04:53:01 GMT

Please let me know about /usr/bin/false and its function.

Re: shell

johnsonpk — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:07:09 GMT

false is a command that does nothing but returns exit code 1, you may be seeing this in the /etc/passwd file for users who are not allowed to login to server.

Re: shell

Patrick Wallek — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:15:05 GMT

/usr/bin/false is typically used as the default shell for users that are NOT allowed to log in via an interactive shell, but ARE allowed to login via FTP.

Re: shell

Rkumar — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:15:24 GMT

Thanks a lot Patrick,

However i have a bit of confusion that is it shell that execute get and put commands?.

Re: shell

Rkumar — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:21:15 GMT

Thanks to all Gurus for their valuable suggestions. points have been awaeded for u r suggestions.

Regards,
Rahul

Re: shell

Dennis Handly — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:33:47 GMT

>that is it shell that executes get and put commands?

No, ftp does that. false(1) is just used to make sure that dummy user can't login.