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Re: Different ways of locking accounts



On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 12:44:18AM +0800, Wei Chen wrote:
> 
> Will there be problem if I lock an account with one program and unlock with
> another?
> 
I don't know.  Why don't you try it and see? :-)

> BTW, both methods lock shells as well as ftp and sftp. Changing the shell to
> /usr/sbin/nologin allows ftp but still prevents sftp.
> Is there a method that locks shell but allows ftp and sftp? Thanks.
> 
I think that you just described it.  Change the user's shell to
/bin/false or something similar.

Regards,

-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sanchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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