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From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
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On Fri, 22 May 1998, Snob Art Genre wrote:
> How?  I don't like this: isn't it standard practice across unixes to set
> a nonexistent shell to disable logins?  POLA etc.

I remember getting around this by ftp'ing a .forward file containing nice
things to reset my shell.  Of course, this assumes that ftp is setup as to
allow logins for users with 'invalid' shells.

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