Re: prevent user from login?

[Deephay <tudoxxx@gmail.com>]

thanks for the help.
but I am not very much understand what is the meaning of changing the
default login shell to /bin/false. Could you explain it? Thanks.

On 9/24/06, Roberto C. Sanchez <roberto@connexer.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 01:36:21PM +0800, Deephay wrote:
> > Greetings all
> >
> > I want to disable certain user's login ability. Say, they are only
> > some email accounts, I want to prevent them from login the system,
> > they may only retrieve their emails through pop3 / IMAP, and these
> > accounts are quite few, so I do not want to use approaches like
> > vpopmail. Are there some way to prevent them from login? Thanks in
> > advance!
> >
>
> sudo chsh -s /bin/false username
>
> You can also specify the shell when you create the user account with
> either useradd or adduser.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Roberto
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