on 7/3/00 2:29 PM, Chris G. Sellers at [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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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