Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 19:53:39 +0100 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: "Houben,G.J.J. (Geert)" <G.Houben@fontys.nl> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: A * as encrypted password? Message-ID: <3AA683B3.BC99C209@i-clue.de> References: <C1E0E1EF0987D3119E720008C70D266601800AF0@fontmail02.fontys.nl>
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"Houben,G.J.J. (Geert)" schrieb: > > Hi, > > When I have to create a user i.e. mysqld for running a daemon, how can I do > that that account cannot login (except from No shell etc) > Can I put with vipw a * as password? Or do I have to do that when I create > it? Just make create the user, using any password you like. After that, edit /etc/master.passwd, putting the "*" into the passwd field (deleting the encrypted passwd which is already there). As an additional precaution, you may wish to set the login shell to /bin/false or something like that. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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