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Date:      Sat, 15 Jan 2000 17:29:11 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        dhw@whistle.com (David Wolfskill)
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, ncb@zip.com.au
Subject:   Re: Disallow remote login by regular user.
Message-ID:  <200001152229.RAA52977@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <200001140140.RAA49056@pau-amma.whistle.com> from David Wolfskill at "Jan 13, 2000 05:40:56 pm"

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David Wolfskill wrote,
> >Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 12:06:36 +1100 (EST)
> >From: Nicholas Brawn <ncb@zip.com.au>
> 
> >Hi folks. I'm trying to ocnfigure my system so that I can disallow a
> >particular user account from being able to login remotely, and forcing
> >users to su to the account instead. How may I configure this?
> 
> >PS. Users may be using anything from telnet to ssh to login to the system,
> >so I need something that works across the board.
> 
> I find that using '*' as the encrypted password appears to do the job
> for me.

But without a password, how does a non-root user then 'su' to these
other accounts?
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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