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Date:      Fri, 21 Feb 2003 17:37:07 +1300
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        Jon Reynolds <jonr@ninestar.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ftp users - question
Message-ID:  <20030221043706.GA67808@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <1045794312.1607.83.camel@localhost.localdomain>
References:  <005d01c2d92d$8d70c990$0701a8c0@darryl> <20030220231312.GA66761@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <1045794312.1607.83.camel@localhost.localdomain>

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On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 05:25:12PM -0900, Jon Reynolds wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 14:13, Jonathan Chen wrote:
[...]
> > Set up the users with a non-existent shell (eg: /nonexistent), and add
> > the non-existent shell entry into /etc/shells.
>  
> I tried this but when I went to adduser and typed in the shell name that
> I had added to /etc/shells, it gives the error:
> nonexistent is not allowed!
> 
> When you first issue the adduser command it checks the /etc/shells then
> says:
> Shell: /nonexistent not executable!
> 
> After this happened I made a dummy file called nonexistent and made it
> executable but to no avail. Is there a hidden step?

Add your users using vipw. Alternatively, add all your users using
adduser and then use vipw to modify their shells to /nonexistent.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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