Graeme had more of an idea of what i'd like to do, what it looks like is thus
usergroup telnet ftp access10 no yes access20 no yes shells yes yes allothers yes yes It's a web hosting box, that also hosts shell accounts. the people with webpage packages don't need telnet and all webpage accounts have their own directory structure, eg /home/webpageusers/username I dunno, I'll look into NIS, but originally I thought Pam would handle it. Pete. > > If you know the IP address of that group, you can put it into > /etc/hosts.deny and deny telnet for them: > TELNET:some.bad.host, xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > man hosts_access(5) > Andrew > -- In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea. *************************************************************** *Peter Good Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Pete's Internet Services Sales: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * *http://www.petesinternet.net Phone: 0401 283 482 * *Morayfield QLD Australia * ***************************************************************