[KLUG Members] gnome users in a one app prison
Adam Tauno Williams
members@kalamazoolinux.org
Wed, 9 Jul 2003 08:53:32 -0400
>>>>>/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).
>>>>| What version of redhat was this introduced in?
>>>Idon't know exactly. It exists on my Redhat 9, 8.0 and 7.3 boxes.
>>It isn't listed in /etc/shells (which I never use 'cause we are LDAPified)
>>on my RedHat 7.1 box.
>Does /sbin/nologin exist on 7.1?
ls [root@littleboy /root]# ls -l /sbin/nologin
ls: /sbin/nologin: No such file or directory
[root@littleboy /root]# whereis nologin
nologin: /usr/share/man/man5/nologin.5.gz