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From: vaden@texoma.com (Larry Vaden)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Users login through radius server
Date: 2 Oct 1995 03:33:06 GMT
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In article <44el59$nuj@despina.neptune.com>, tom@neptune.com says...
>
>Hi,
>
>Most of my users connect through PPP, and get authenticate from a
>radius server on a BSDI machien. In order for the users to be
>authenticate from the BSDI machine, they need an account on that
>machine, but by creating an account on the BSDI machine they can
>access the BSDI machine which I don't want. So I would like to create
>a "false shell", so that once logged into the BSDI machine itcloses
>the session. Does anybody knows how to do it?
>
>I will appreciate any help.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Tom
>tom@neptune.com

A zero length /usr/contrib/bin/zsh seems to work for us.

Your mileage may vary.

Larry