Ruben van Engelenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was installing vsFtpd om my Debian server today and found out that > users can't login if their shell is set to /bin/false. [...] > Is there a way to change this behaviour [...]
Add your "shell" to the list in /etc/shells (see "man shells" for some details). Actually, I prefer to use a trivial /usr/local/sbin/nologin, which writes a "Not authorised" type message to stdout and waits for three seconds before exiting: cat <<! >nologin.c && CFLAGS=-O3 LDFLAGS=-s make nologin #include <stdio.h> main() { puts ("This account is currently not available"); sleep (3); exit (0); } ! Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]