Re: unprivledged users (for a service)

2011-08-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 15/08/2011 17:42, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Aug 15, 2011, at 9:37 AM, Chris Brennan wrote: It's been a while since I've had to do this and the drive that contained all of my notes is dead, along with the backup (I was actually lucky to recover my home drive before it also failed but my

unprivledged users (for a service)

2011-08-15 Thread Chris Brennan
Greetings, It's been a while since I've had to do this and the drive that contained all of my notes is dead, along with the backup (I was actually lucky to recover my home drive before it also failed but my notes were not there). I cannot for the life of me remember how to properly add an

Re: unprivledged users (for a service)

2011-08-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 15, 2011, at 9:37 AM, Chris Brennan wrote: It's been a while since I've had to do this and the drive that contained all of my notes is dead, along with the backup (I was actually lucky to recover my home drive before it also failed but my notes were not there). I cannot for the life

Re: unprivledged users (for a service)

2011-08-15 Thread Chris Brennan
On 8/15/2011 12:42 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: Add a user and set the shell to /bin/false or perhaps /sbin/nologin; for $HOME set it to /var/empty or /tmp, perhaps. Ahh thanks, I wasn't sure if there was a script that did this automatically and I just failed to find it or if I could just use the

Re: unprivledged users (for a service)

2011-08-15 Thread Michael Powell
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Aug 15, 2011, at 9:37 AM, Chris Brennan wrote: It's been a while since I've had to do this and the drive that contained all of my notes is dead, along with the backup (I was actually lucky to recover my home drive before it also failed but my notes were not there). I