shell

[Rkumar]

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

[johnsonpk]

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.

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

/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.

[Rkumar]

Thanks a lot Patrick,

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

[Rkumar]

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


Regards,
Rahul

[Dennis Handly]

>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.