Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 09:12:54 +0000 From: Tony Byrne <tony@nua.ie> To: Craig Burgess <craig-burgess@home.net> Cc: FreeBSD-alpha mailing list <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: unable to create login-less user Message-ID: <n9ka9sgo0cpkec19o2v4ujpvd2piiomra2@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <38955019.210B890A@home.net> References: <38955019.210B890A@home.net>
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On Mon, 31 Jan 2000 01:04:25 -0800, you wrote: >was easy in i386... I'd read somewhere that adding NP to the password >field in masster.passwd created a user who could not login -- and it >worked. > >The same simple thing does not work in FreeBSD/Alpha FreeBSD >4.0-19991225-CURRENT -- or I'm missing something. > >Thanks, >craig Craig, I'm not familiar with using "NP" in the password field of the master.password file to prevent logins, but "*" should come close to doing the same job. Also it might be an idea to set the shell of such accounts to "/sbin/nologin". Hope this helps, Regards, Tony. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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