Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 15:54:31 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> To: matrix@norilsk.ru (Artem Koutchine) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Local net + initernet (interesting idea) Message-ID: <199704172154.PAA24607@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <199704171343.RAA04082@omni.norilsk.ru> from "Artem Koutchine" at Apr 17, 97 09:42:42 pm
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Artem Koutchine asked:
> Recently one very interesting question came up and
> i just could not figure out teh solution.
You came to the right place.
> We are and ISP and also decided to make a very interesting thing
> such as city intranet (thanks god our city is pretty compact). In this
> light the problems that came up were
What a great idea! What city do you serve?
> 4) No shell for city net users.
> [...]
> Part of the sollution is in using PAP (not shell account), but it mean no
> POP3, SMTP mail!
I can help solve this one. Go ahead and create a shell account for
each of your citynet users, but set their shell to /sbin/nologin.
This will create a valid passwd entry for the user, but keep them
from every really logging into your server.
If you *do not* put /sbin/nologin into the file /etc/shells, these
users will *not* be able to login to your ftp server.
If you would like a version of the nologin program that logs access
attempts to nologin accounts, see my web page listed below. I've
written a simple compiled nologin program that logs a message in the
system log whenever someone trys to access a nologin account; you
compile and install this program and use it as the users shell.
> PS: If this letter gets to a russian speaking person, write in russian
> please :)
Russian? Even my english is questionable -- I've been stuck in Utah
too long! ;^)
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com
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