From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 15 21:13:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57E9D16A4CE for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:13:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from anggerik.synthexp.net (anggerik.meltech.net.my [202.71.100.92]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17E5D43D55 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:13:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ihsan@synthexp.net) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (unknown [218.111.150.37]) by anggerik.synthexp.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 809895081B for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 05:12:39 +0800 (MYT) Message-ID: <40CF6610.6000708@synthexp.net> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 05:11:44 +0800 From: Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <40CE8CB9.9050504@synthexp.net> <20040615225406.1d3a0b58@cherub.home.volker.de> In-Reply-To: <20040615225406.1d3a0b58@cherub.home.volker.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Detaching program from controlling terminal X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:13:03 -0000 Volker Kindermann wrote: > what about giving them /usr/bin/passwd as the shell? So, the only thing > they have to do is ssh to the system and they're asked for the password. > > Haven't tried this on FreeBSD yet, but it should work. > Did a cursory testing just now and they seem to work. I'm going to conduct further testing on it later during the day. Should be a decent stop-gap measure. Definitely it didn't cross my mind. Thanks.