Subject: RE: User Shell?
From: Sean Page (spage@epsb.edmonton.ab.ca)
Date: Wed May 17 2000 - 11:32:47 EDT
Or, you could also set up your student accounts with a bogus shell, so that
they are unable to login via telnet.
For example:
Add /usr/bin/true to your /etc/shells file
then
set up your student accounts to use /usr/bin/true as their shell.
no shell, no login.
Sean.
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> >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.
>
> -Peter Gutowski
>
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