Re: User?s and Shells

On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 02:34:15PM -0800, Brian Hatch wrote:
> To have no shell, you'd want
 

I'm wondering why I would want that - until now nobody could give me a good argument although everybody learns to remove the shells :-(

• If I give my users a disabled password, they cannot¹ login via passwd

Any hints?

bye,

-christian-

¹: Yes, except for the rare cases when the PAM developers release a

   buggy version that interprets '*' as no password instead of no    login.. Received on Fri Dec 20 17:29:10 2002

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