err could you not add /bin/false to /etc/shells ?? On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Brian Powell wrote: > on 7/3/00 2:29 PM, Chris G. Sellers at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > chsh. If your using Linux or anything but Solaris. If they do not have > > a valid shell (usually in /etc/shells) or if you set their shell to be > > /dev/null then they should not be able to login. > > > > Visit linuxdoc.org and search for security. They will give you some > > how-to's to make your system secure, and one of them should be shell > > access. > > Just a reminder, if you do this, the users will not be able to ftp to the > machine (using their account) either. This may or may not matter to you, > but, it is a side effect of removing the shell. > > --Brian > >
