Re: [cobalt-users] RPM/SRPM for nfs-utils-1.0.1-3.9 now available

[Ryan Verner <xfesty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 23/12/2003, at 5:59 PM, Zeffie wrote:

> > > or just "cheat" and ln -s /sbin/badsh /sbin/nologin
> >
> > I think that would work too... also need to add /sbin/nologin to
> /etc/shells
>
> Thats exactly the kind of thinking that breaks the whole rpm concept...

I haven't been following this, but how the heck does adding a new 
invalid shell to /etc/shells break your package management system?

R