From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Jan 31 1:11: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from guardian-ext.merrion.nua.net (guardian-ext.merrion.nua.net [195.7.46.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA7D514EB6 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 01:10:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tony@nua.ie) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by guardian-ext.merrion.nua.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id JAA01635; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 09:10:39 GMT Received: from globetrotter.merrion.nua.net(195.7.46.55) via SMTP by guardian-int.merrion.nua.net, id smtpdMu1629; Mon Jan 31 09:10:35 2000 From: Tony Byrne To: Craig Burgess Cc: FreeBSD-alpha mailing list Subject: Re: unable to create login-less user Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 09:12:54 +0000 Organization: Nua Ltd. Message-ID: References: <38955019.210B890A@home.net> In-Reply-To: <38955019.210B890A@home.net> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 31 Jan 2000 01:04:25 -0800, you wrote: >was easy in i386... I'd read somewhere that adding NP to the password >field in masster.passwd created a user who could not login -- and it >worked. > >The same simple thing does not work in FreeBSD/Alpha FreeBSD >4.0-19991225-CURRENT -- or I'm missing something. > >Thanks, >craig Craig, I'm not familiar with using "NP" in the password field of the master.password file to prevent logins, but "*" should come close to doing the same job. Also it might be an idea to set the shell of such accounts to "/sbin/nologin". Hope this helps, Regards, Tony. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message