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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ftp deamon
Date: 2 Jun 1996 20:43:49 GMT
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zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont) wrote:

> make the shell /dev/null and add it to /etc/shells.

/sbin/nologin is your friend.

-- 
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. ;-)