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Date:      Fri, 22 May 1998 12:35:15 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        ben@rosengart.com
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SKey and locked account 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980522123353.17033i-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980522112610.18198B-100000@echonyc.com>

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On Fri, 22 May 1998, Snob Art Genre wrote:
> How?  I don't like this: isn't it standard practice across unixes to set
> a nonexistent shell to disable logins?  POLA etc.

I remember getting around this by ftp'ing a .forward file containing nice
things to reset my shell.  Of course, this assumes that ftp is setup as to
allow logins for users with 'invalid' shells.

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