Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 18:50:32 -0400 From: Ean Kingston <ean@hedron.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suspending login Message-ID: <200504051850.33281.ean@hedron.org> In-Reply-To: <42531440.30103@adelphia.net> References: <42531440.30103@adelphia.net>
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On April 5, 2005 06:42 pm, Bob Ababurko wrote: > Hello all- > > I am trying to figure out how to suspend a login for a user. Do I have > to do this with password aging or is there an easier(read brute force) > way to disallow a user from logging in? the safest way is to set the shell to /sbin/nologin and the home directory to /nonexistant in your auth system. The latter is especially needed if you allow ssh for remote login since the public-key authentication mechanisms sometimes bypass the normal login restrictions. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org/
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