Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:24:44 +0200 From: Thomas Bader <thomasb@trash.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Re[2]: Migrating from Linux to FreeBSD... Message-ID: <20000728112444.A13330@trash.net> In-Reply-To: <141618390087.20000727214827@buz.ch>; from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch on Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 09:48:27PM %2B0200 References: <99614395654.20000727204153@buz.ch> <20000727212605.A341@trash.net> <141618390087.20000727214827@buz.ch>
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* Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> [000727 21:48]: > > You may set a new password to the non priviledged users. > > They can change it to whatever they like (and to whatever's > > quiet secure). >=20 > Impossible as the users don't have shell access. In fact, we only use > those accounts for FTP, quotas and some accounting stuff. Why you don't just give the users "passwd" as login shell? They could simply change their password by telneting or ssh-ing to your FreeBSD box. But don't forget to add "passwd" to /etc/shells. Cheers, Thomas --=20 .-. Thomas Bader =B7 thomasb@trash.net.remove =B7 http://www.t-bader.ch= / .-. oo| o= o| /`'\ Einen Unix-Shellaccount gibt es unter http://www.trash.net/ /`= '\ (\_;/) PGP Key-ID: 0x3A4B7F5D (RSA) 0x7584F5D8 (DSA/EG) (\_= ;/) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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