Subject: Re: shell
From: Brian Powell (brian@filogroup.com)
Date: Mon Jul 03 2000 - 22:26:28 EDT
on 7/3/00 2:29 PM, Chris G. Sellers at sellers@Oakland.edu wrote:
> chsh. If your using Linux or anything but Solaris. If they do not have
> a valid shell (usually in /etc/shells) or if you set their shell to be
> /dev/null then they should not be able to login.
>
> Visit linuxdoc.org and search for security. They will give you some
> how-to's to make your system secure, and one of them should be shell
> access.
Just a reminder, if you do this, the users will not be able to ftp to the
machine (using their account) either. This may or may not matter to you,
but, it is a side effect of removing the shell.
--Brian
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