[techtalk] login restriction

[Eva Fenrich]

Hi!
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 01:52:46PM -0400, Brian Sweeney wrote:
> Does anyone know how to restrict users on a RHL 6.0 box from being able to
> actually login?  I know this sounds strange, but hear me out.  I have this
> new mailserver up, and I want people to be able to POP to it to retrieve
> mail, but not anything else.  I had thought the way to do this was through
> the /etc/security/access.conf, and indeed that file seems to say that's what

It should be possible to set their login shell to /bin/false 
but be careful to not allow ftp !!!

Regards,
Eva
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Eva Fenrich					
Fachschaft Umweltschutztechnik
FachschaftsvertreterInnenversammlung
Universitaet Stuttgart
eva at faveve.uni-stuttgart.de
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