[KLUG Members] gnome users in a one app prison

[Russell Dillenburg]

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From: members-admin@kalamazoolinux.org
[mailto:members-admin@kalamazoolinux.org]On Behalf Of Bruce Smith
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 12:23 PM
To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
Subject: Re: [KLUG Members] gnome users in a one app prison


> >One other thing you can muck around with (it may or may not work for
> >your application), is to not give your user(s) a valid shell in passwd.
> 
> /bin/false rulez!

Yes, but things have advanced.  See:  /sbin/nologin  nologin(8)

That way you can display custom nasty messages to the user when 
they try to login.  :-)

And it's already in /etc/shells, so you don't need to add it 
(for FTP logins).
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| What version of redhat was this introduced in?
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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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Thanks,

Russell Dillenburg 
<mailto:russell@dillenburg.org> 
Computer Science Society Member
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DePaul University