Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 20:19:08 -0500 From: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> To: Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su> Cc: Francisco Reyes <freyes@inch.com>, FreeBSD <Freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, Langa Kentane <evablunted@earthling.net> Subject: Re: Disabling a user account Message-ID: <19990827011908.4A5E018@woodstock.monkey.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Aug 1999 22:51:50 %2B0600." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908262249470.348-100000@localhost.cgu.chel.su>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908262249470.348-100000@localhost.cgu.chel.su>, Ilia Chipitsine wrote: } you could disable ftp/pop3/stuff (which stuff ?!) by changing } user's shell with /sbin/nologin } } I'd suggest you to change user's password (using vipw) } with "*", what means that any kind of login is disallowed. No, it only means that any kind of a login which requires a check of the encrypted password against a user supplied string is disallowed. It still permits rlogin, rsh, ssh, etc if those wouldn't have otherwise required a password which is checked against the passwd file. -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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