From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 1 10: 0:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F78714BC9 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 10:00:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from leaverite (leaverite.sentex.ca [209.112.4.36]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA22962 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 13:00:13 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990401130517.00cc6410@staff.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@staff.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 13:05:17 -0500 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Mike Tancsa Subject: making /usr/bin/passwd the 'shell' Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I dont want to give some of my users shell access, but I want them to be able to change their password. What would be the implications of setting their shell to /usr/bin/passwd ? Are there any more prefered/safer ways of doing this ? ---Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Tancsa, tel 01.519.651.3400 Network Administrator, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message