Re: User Shell?


Subject: Re: User Shell?
From: jeff b (jeff@univrel.pr.uconn.edu)
Date: Wed May 17 2000 - 10:32:15 EDT


On Wed, 17 May 2000 Bill Tihen -- TECHNOLOGY wrote:
> I would like to make my student file server so that the
> students may not telnet in, but I understand that
> Netatalk requires a full login account. Will this
> change? Is there a way around this? I suppose I could
> remove the telnet service. Any other ideas?

Have you tried setting the shell to be /dev/null or /dev/zero, then adding
that to /etc/shells? Either that or leave it as /bin/passwd to allow them
to change their passwords.
     
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jeff b
system administrator
university communications
university of connecticut
jeff@univrel.pr.uconn.edu



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