The only way I know not to have a shell.. ie /bin/false or /bin/sh in / etc/group is to use scp access only. If there is no shell you can't login because a login shell is not being used. I did this on a server were it was https/scp access only to send files. Then it https: with a directory tree to download files.
Vi^3PP On Dec 7, 2:47 pm, Curt Lundgren <verif...@gmail.com> wrote: > We have a large number of users on a SuSE Linux server without shell > access. I'm looking for a way to test whether a plaintext password is > valid or not. I thought I could use "login" and do something based on > the way it fails (bad password vs. no login shell) but that's not > working for me. > > Does anyone know of something command line based that will give me > thumbs up/thumbs down for a given user/password combination? > > Thanks! > > Curt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en.
