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Re: Password Change Machine



Jeremy Gaddis wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Daniel Whelan wrote:
> 
> > I'm currently configuring a machine to be the master password machine
> > for a large network of machines. Is there a way to configure it to allow
> > only root to get an actual console, and to have all other users
> > redirected to a password change program?
> 
> Set root's shell to whichever you prefer, and set
> the regular user's shell to /usr/bin/passwd.

Yeah...I thought of this at first, but I need a solution that doesn't
mess with the passwd file at all, as the passwd file is distributed to
other machines on a regular basis, and the users actually need access to
their shell there. :)

Daniel



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