thanks for the help.
but I am not very much understand what is the meaning of changing the
default login shell to /bin/false. Could you explain it? Thanks.
On 9/24/06, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 01:36:21PM +0800, Deephay wrote:
> Greetings all
>
> I want to disable certain user's login ability. Say, they are only
> some email accounts, I want to prevent them from login the system,
> they may only retrieve their emails through pop3 / IMAP, and these
> accounts are quite few, so I do not want to use approaches like
> vpopmail. Are there some way to prevent them from login? Thanks in
> advance!
>
sudo chsh -s /bin/false username
You can also specify the shell when you create the user account with
either useradd or adduser.
Regards,
-Roberto
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