RE: Preventing logins /bin/false ?

2001-08-20 Thread Ian Perry
From: Vineet Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 8:18 AM * Ian Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010816 20:11]: Hi, Quick question. I have been using /dev/null to prevent shell logins (yet still leave pop3 etc running) as follows: username:x:1000:1000:Mr

RE: Preventing logins /bin/false ?

2001-08-20 Thread Martin Fluch
I would rather give people as little information about the system as possible. There is also a risk (however slight) that /bin/false could be replaced with a bash program. I don't believe that this could be done with /dev/null (or could it ?) It's not a problem at all to replace /dev/null

RE: Preventing logins /bin/false ?

2001-08-20 Thread Ian Perry
From: Martin Fluch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Martin Fluch Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 5:19 PM I would rather give people as little information about the system as possible. There is also a risk (however slight) that /bin/false could be replaced with a bash program. I don't

Re: Preventing logins /bin/false ?

2001-08-17 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 17 Aug 2001 12:55:35 +1000, Ian Perry wrote: Hi, Quick question. I have been using /dev/null to prevent shell logins (yet still leave pop3 etc running) as follows: username:x:1000:1000:Mr User,,,:/home/homedir:/dev/null I noticed that the shell can also be put as /bin/false as in ftp

Re: Preventing logins /bin/false ?

2001-08-17 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Ian Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010816 20:11]: Hi, Quick question. I have been using /dev/null to prevent shell logins (yet still leave pop3 etc running) as follows: username:x:1000:1000:Mr User,,,:/home/homedir:/dev/null I noticed that the shell can also be put as /bin/false as in ftp