This is the wrong question. The better question is something along the lines of "why do you think you need a shell?", and the only answers you can have there ar

This is the wrong question. The better question is something along the lines of "why do you think you need a shell?", and the only answers you can have there are making attacker's lives easier and theoretical cases where you may need to run shell commands against a service in anger. I don't personally think it's worth it.