03-29-2007
Thank you all for the interest.What i found is this is something related with the security and prevent some kind of spoofing attacks(mainly with sid).
The text posted below is from the link posted by Perderabo.
Quote:
sh -
or by:
#! usr/bin/sh -
the historical systems have assumed that no option letters follow. Thus, this volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 allows the single hyphen to mark the end of the options, in addition to the use of the regular "--" argument, because it was considered that the older practice was so pervasive. An alternative approach is taken by the KornShell, where real and effective user/group IDs must match for an interactive shell; this behavior is specifically allowed by this volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001.
Note:
There are other problems with set-user-ID scripts that the two approaches described here do not resolve.
But still i am not able to understand what is it.I would appreciate if somebody can explain it in simple language.
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SYNOPSIS
/etc/shells
DESCRIPTION
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Invalid shells in /etc/shells may cause unexpected behavior (such as being unable to log in by way of ftp(1)).
FILES
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SEE ALSO
vipw(1B), ftpd(1M), sendmail(1M), getusershell(3C), aliases(4)
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