In that case, you can set the shell properly in password. If you run the
"adduser" script that Redhat supplies, then in /etc/skel, you can change
.bash_profile to put and "exit" command at the end of the profile script. This will
be copied to his directory.
If you do this, then if a user telnets to his account, he is immediately logged
out. You must make sure the .bash_profile is chmod to where root owns the file and
is the only one that can modify that file. Otherwise the user could ftp a
.bash_profile replacement into his directory and telnet in.
bug
Nils wrote:
> > You can simply add a line in /etc/passwd, with the shell set to /dev/null,
> > and run 'passwd' as root to set the password in their passwd or shadow file.
> > this will give them a mailbox but no shell account.
>
> Yes, I am planning to give a shell which does not allow a login (not
> /dev/null since the popper will require a valid shell from /etc/shells)
> but ftp and suchlike would still be accessible.
>
> In the end I'm not too bothered about that, it's just that I feel very
> uneasy about having so many user accounts (200+) to manage.
>
> Nils
>
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