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Paladin9

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« on: 7 March 2004, 02:08 »
how do I prevent users from actually being able to login in to slackware?  I want the users to be able to access stuff over the network, but I do not want them login into the slackware server itself. Another question; I know how to "jail" users to their home directory in proftpd, but how do I jail only some users and not all of them?
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« Reply #1 on: 7 March 2004, 02:27 »
To give a user access to everything but a shell prompt, edit the /etc/passwd file and replace their shell (e.g. /bin/bash) with /sbin/nologin.  

Not sure about the proftpd jailing question.. I stopped using any form of FTPD years ago.
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« Reply #2 on: 7 March 2004, 03:13 »
Slackware doesn't actually have an /sbin/nologin, but you can copy it from RedHat.
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« Reply #3 on: 7 March 2004, 04:48 »
quote:
Originally posted by Tux:
Slackware doesn't actually have an /sbin/nologin, but you can copy it from RedHat.


I tried that in slackware and it worked, however it prevented those users from logging in to proftpd.
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« Reply #4 on: 7 March 2004, 07:42 »
You could probably put symlinks in the home directorys to the other stuff you want them to accses.

eg, if you wanted user "jesus" to accses /bible.

ln -s /home/jesus/bible /bible

or somthing like that.

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« Reply #5 on: 7 March 2004, 07:58 »
1 vote for bin