ftp and shell access

[Raul A. Gallegos]

HMM, You learn something new every day. I was not aware of that.  Thanks for
the tidbit.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry at gotss.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 4:22 AM
Subject: Re: ftp and shell access


> This is a particularly bad idea.
> /bin/false is actually part of the GNU shell utilities
> and does nothing, silently and returns a non-zero exit code.
> It is a utility called from shell scripts so making a shellscript called
/bin/false
> that generates output will cause various things to fail noisily
> and unpredictably.
>