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From: kelly@emu.fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: A Matter of Security
Date: 12 Jan 1996 00:08:32 GMT
Organization: Forecast Systems Laboratory
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Message-ID: <4d48q0$es1@lace.colorado.edu>
References: <4d0qav$9j0@gol2.gol.com> <DKzCMx.JCF@lazrus.cca.rockwell.com>
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In article <DKzCMx.JCF@lazrus.cca.rockwell.com>,
Dean M. Phillips <dmphilli@yeager.cca.rockwell.com> wrote:
>Set their shell to something that does not accept commands.  I use a
>program that looks something like this: [...]

Or use /sbin/nologin as the shell.

-- 
Sean Kelly
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder Colorado USA

I used to be an airline pilot.  I got fired because I kept locking the
keys in the plane.  They caught me on an 80 foot stepladder with a
coat hanger. -- Steven Wright