Date: 19 Jul 2003 10:54:28 -0700 From: Mark <mw@lanfear.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Security of adding users for "accounts" ?? Message-ID: <1058637268.1308.0.camel@donburi>
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hey! i hope this isn't too silly a question, but one of the really easy ways we've found to manage "accounts" for customers is to just go and create actual unix accounts for them on our FreeBSD boxes, which helps us organise everything from directories to where programs look for their info, etc ... now, to keep things "safer", we always deny the accounts shell access by setting the shell field in /etc/passwd to /sbin/nologin but .... we're still wondering if there are any security implications to consider from doing this, and if there are any other, perhaps better ways to manage non-trivial numbers of customer accounts ... we're only in the dozens now, but it may get into the hundreds in the future. thanks! mark.
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