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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: chroot() question--please help
Date: 23 Nov 1995 22:29:24 GMT
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paul@trumpet.com.au (Paul Reece) writes:

> I just created a user in group "guest" and gave them shell /dev/null

/sbin/nologin is intented for such a purpose.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)