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Date:      Fri, 4 Jan 2002 16:00:04 +0300
From:      "Nickolay A.Kritsky" <nkritsky@internethelp.ru>
To:        Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
Cc:        =?ISO-8859-1?B?5M3J1NLJyiDwz8TLz9LZ1M/X?= <podkorytov@mail.ru>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re[2]: nologin hole?
Message-ID:  <48581238076.20020104160004@internethelp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20020104074349.A5042@blackhelicopters.org>
References:  <E16MLol-000FEJ-00@f8.mail.ru> <20020104074349.A5042@blackhelicopters.org>

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Hello Michael,

Friday, January 04, 2002, 3:43:49 PM, you wrote:


ML> Hello,

ML> I would recommend not using nologin as the users' shell.  Instead,
ML> take a look at /etc/login.access.

ML> This makes the shell irrelevant; the user cannot log in, in any shell.

ML> Generally, my sysadmins are in a "sysadmin" group.  The "sysadmin"
ML> group is allowed to log in from anywhere.  All other users are denied
ML> login.

ML> There's an article on this in my column archives, if you want a
ML> point-by-point walkthrough.

ML> Good luck!

ML> ==ml

the problem is that some versions of SSH do not pay any attention to
/etc/login.access file, so you still may have a need in /sbin/nologin.

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