* Bill Tihen -- TECHNOLOGY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> menulis:
> Students don't need ftp or telnet access. However, I
> thought I remembered that netatalk required a "real"
> shell. I thought if one used /dev/false then the
> students would no longer be able to access their files
> via netatalk. Netatalk access is very important. Has
> this changed? I thought I just read about someone who
> stumbled into this gotcha.
I have a very similar setup (actually the user's shells are set to
/bin/passwd, same idea) and have never had a problem with users not
being able to log in via appleshare. If you're really paranoid, you
could always create yourself a new account, set its shell to
/bin/false, and test it out.
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