Janus N. Tøndering wrote:
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 19:30, Ross Currie wrote:quite right. You'll want to put something like /bin/false in your passwd file as the user's shell.Both /bin/false and /bin/true has been suggested. Any difference in using the two?
/bin/false returns false, while /bin/true returns true. If you want to generate an error to the client, use /bin/false, but if you want 'exit 0' behaviour, then use /bin/true.
I, personally, use /bin/false.(you can also use /usr/bin/passwd, and an authenticated ssh session will prompt for the old password again, and then allow a user to change it)
which is nice. -g -- Glen Mehn glen@burningman.com "if you ever swallow the universe, remember to spit the dragon back out.xx. --swan