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From: jim@sbt.net ()
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Users login through radius server
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1995 02:48:06 GMT
Organization: SBT, Inc.
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vaden@texoma.com (Larry Vaden) wrote:

>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

You can try this:

run adduser

input the user name and password

add the user to the user (or whatever directory)

instead of giving the customer a /usr/home/customer directory, put
them in a /usr/pppeverone directory

for their shell type, assign /usr/bin/false

this oughta do it for you.

jim@sbt.net