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