denying loggins

[Cockerham, Bill]

And to make sure it works you could always have a .profile in their home
directory that has exit as it's only contents.  Then they will automatically
get kicked out even if they do log in.

-----Original Message-----
From: Duston, Hal [mailto:hdusto01 at sprintspectrum.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 3:03 PM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: RE: denying loggins

Dale Herring [mailto:dale_n_ks at yahoo.com] wrote:
> 
> Don't know if you guys can answer this one, but I have
> people that dial into my system and I use radius to
> authenticate them. What I want to do is to prevent
> some users from being able to login with a username
> but still be able to check their e-mail.
> I was thinkng if I gave them a /dev/null shell that

I think if you give them a shell of /bin/false, that 
will do it.

> would prevent it. But I can still connect with a user
> that has a /dev/null/  do i need to put more
> information someplace else?
> Or is there another way to prevent these people from
> getting authenticated for a connection, but still able
> to get e-mail.

Hal Duston