On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 07:42:47PM -0500, Eben King wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Logan Tygart wrote:
> >On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 11:33 -0500, Rich Morgan wrote:
> >>Hey guys and gals, an interesting forum question was posted by a friend
> >>of mine and I'd like to get your take on it: How do you limit access to
> >>the command line to just root? That is to say, not allow a user account
> >>to access a terminal at all.
> >
> >Just set their shell to /bin/false.
>
> Would that interfere with trminal emulators that want to start a login
> shell?
Yeah, it won't allow them. The shell will be /bin/false.
Logan
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