Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 14:51:12 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'nologin' program for disabling user accounts Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.94.970209144949.29838A-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <199702100646.XAA06827@obie.softweyr.ml.org>
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On Sun, 9 Feb 1997, Wes Peters wrote: > A few days ago a user on the -questions mailing list was asking for a > secure way to disable a user account. I once wrote a simple program to > do this years ago as a part of Security Toolkit, so I stirred the old > grey matter a little bit and put this together for him. Since others > may want to do this as well, I'm sending it to the hackers forum for > nitpicking and consideration to be included in the next release(s). Why? It seems that all BSD4.4 systems already have a nologin. See "man nologin" Tom
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