[KLUG Members] gnome users in a one app prison

Adam Williams members@kalamazoolinux.org
Tue, 8 Jul 2003 16:01:03 -0400 (EDT)


>> >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.  :-)

Cool.

>And it's already in /etc/shells, so you don't need to add it 
>(for FTP logins).

Phfftttt. Us LDAP people don't care about no /etc/shells.  Pesky files!