From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 21 12:58:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from akira.lanfear.com (akira.lanfear.com [208.12.11.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11D7137B71A for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:58:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwlist@lanfear.com) Received: from sapporo.lanfear.com (h-64-105-36-216.snvacaid.covad.net [64.105.36.216]) by akira.lanfear.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA17008; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:55:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwlist@lanfear.com) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:55:57 -0800 (PST) From: Marc W Message-Id: <200103212055.MAA17008@akira.lanfear.com> To: "SF" , "Freebsd-Questions" Subject: Re:Users for Daemons - not logging in - how? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Mailer: Kiltdown 0.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > ----------------------------- > From: "SF" > Sent: 03/21/01 14:32> > > > I'm trying to set up users for running specific service daemons, but I don't > want someone to be able to use that user to log into the machine via ssh > (which is the only way to log into the machine remotely) or the console. I > searched through the mail list and couldn't find the answer, but apologize > if this has been asked before. Would I be correct in doing something > similar to what one does when installing qmail? I.e.: Just set the shell to /bin/nologin. marc. Marc W, San Francisco, CA Kiltdown -- a free email client for X www.kiltdown.org -- it's what's underneath that counts. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message