Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman | Date | Mon, 29 Mar 1999 13:31:53 +0100 (BST) |
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> > true and false are bash builtins, so who cares? > (t)csh users and sysad's using /bin/false for a shell in /etc/passwd
Its generally held to be a better idea to use /dev/null. This avoids a shell exec and any risk of some clever environment variable attack
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