From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 26 18:19: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailgw01.execpc.com (mailgw01.execpc.com [169.207.2.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 020D014BE4 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 18:19:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamilton@pobox.com) Received: from woodstock.monkey.net (kronos-2-137.mdm.mkt.execpc.com [169.207.86.75]) by mailgw01.execpc.com (8.9.1) id UAA05289; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 20:18:39 -0500 Received: from pobox.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodstock.monkey.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A5E018; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 20:19:08 -0500 (CDT) To: Ilia Chipitsine Cc: Francisco Reyes , FreeBSD , Langa Kentane Subject: Re: Disabling a user account In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 26 Aug 1999 22:51:50 +0600." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 20:19:08 -0500 From: Jon Hamilton Message-Id: <19990827011908.4A5E018@woodstock.monkey.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Ilia Chipitsine wrote: } you could disable ftp/pop3/stuff (which stuff ?!) by changing } user's shell with /sbin/nologin } } I'd suggest you to change user's password (using vipw) } with "*", what means that any kind of login is disallowed. No, it only means that any kind of a login which requires a check of the encrypted password against a user supplied string is disallowed. It still permits rlogin, rsh, ssh, etc if those wouldn't have otherwise required a password which is checked against the passwd file. -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message