Subject: Re: User Shell?
From: Andre Pang (andrep-ml@vjolnir.org)
Date: Wed May 17 2000 - 10:38:26 EDT
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 10:09:50AM -0400, Peter Gutowski 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?
>
> Of course removing telnet service from inetd.conf ensures that *nobody*
> (even you!) can telnet in.
>
> I would recommend using randnum authentication and set an initial password
> for each user in the ~/.passwd file that is *different* from the unix
> password (which you will _not_ reveal to them.) Your other message
> referenced students having email accounts as well, in which case this
> solution won't work.
a very simple solution, if you're not running NIS(+), would be to change
the shell for all the users to /bin/false, or something similar. you might
like to use /dev/null, if you're into that sort of thing. (have a look at
the /etc/passwd file.)
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