Subject: Re: User Shell?
From: Lancaster, David Matthew (c4ng2@unb.ca)
Date: Wed May 17 2000 - 14:34:04 EDT
or set their shells to /dev/false
note that ftp access will fail too. (it checks if the shell is valid, i.e.
in /etc/shells)
David Lancaster (506) 454-2167
690 Gregg Ct. Upper Apartment
Fredericton, NB Canada E3B 4H5
c4ng2@unb.ca "Don't anthropomorphize computers, they hate that."
On 17 May 2000, 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.
>
> -Peter Gutowski
>
>
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