Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 23:20:08 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Fisher <mfisher@csh.rit.edu> To: Jim Sander <jim@federation.addy.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MUA as shell for mail-only accounts? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0001062315370.372-100000@res112b-165.rh.rit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001061318580.21920-100000@federation.addy.com>
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On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Jim Sander wrote:
> SSH I don't think can be used to change the shell directly- unless you
> mean the "exploit the RSA-REF hole for root; vi /etc/master.passwd" method
> of changing shells. :) Maybe *I'm* remembering incorrectly though.
I believe that it was mentioned that SSH (using RSA key
authentication) could be used to get around a `*' in the passwd
field.
A (theoretical) way of getting around the shell issue is
~/.login_conf. From the man page:
shell prog Session shell to execute
rather than the shell speci-
fied in the passwd file. The
SHELL environment variable
will contain the shell speci-
fied in the password file.
However, as I last recall, this functionality was not implemented.
- --
Mike
"The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power
into the hands of the central government and then says, 'Limit
yourself'; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian."
-- Murray Rothbard
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