Subject: Re: shell
From: Michael Bartosh (bartosh@ocean.tamu.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 03 2000 - 23:00:43 EDT
err could you not add /bin/false to /etc/shells ??
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Brian Powell wrote:
> 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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