Shell Accounts

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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Hi,
The way I do this is as follows. First, add the following to the end
of your /etc/shells file.

/bin/nologin

This way, your ftp server will consider /bin/nologin a valid shell.
Now, create /bin/nologin as follows:

#!/usr/bin/tail +2
Sorry, but logins for this account are disabled.
It is being used only to provide a service.

Now make this executable with this command:

chmod 755 /bin/nologin

Finally, set the shell of the account you want to block logins for to
/bin/nologin.

There are other ways to do this, but I like this one because it
provides an explanatory message to those trying to log in. Anyone
attempting to login to the account will receive the following
message:

Sorry, but logins for this account are disabled.
It is being used only to provide a service.

Once the message is printed, the connection will be promptly
terminated.
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Joseph C. Lininger
jbahm at pcdesk.net
- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rejean Proulx" <rejean at interfree.ca>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 4:54 AM
Subject: Shell Accounts


> I have an account that I want to use for ftp only and I don't want
> people logging in to.  How to I stop them?
> 
>  Rejean Proulx
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