I believe this is a feature of PAM rather than netatalk.
/* Sam */
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Holling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Rich Lafferty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Valid shell needed for users?
> > Usual Behavior. Your ftp daemon probably works the same way. Make
> > their shell something like /bin/false and add /bin/false to /etc/shells
> > and you're all set.
>
> Actually I tried that...I also did a quick grep of the afpd binary for
> "/etc/shells" and came up blank. At this point I'm looking for
> documentation of this feature, since the man page says nothing about it.