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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: Paladin9 on 7 March 2004, 02:08

Title: banning users
Post by: Paladin9 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?

Title: banning users
Post by: mobrien_12 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.

Title: banning users
Post by: KernelPanic on 7 March 2004, 03:13

Slackware doesn't actually have an /sbin/nologin, but you can copy it from RedHat.

Title: banning users
Post by: Paladin9 on 7 March 2004, 04:48

quote:

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Originally posted by Tux:
Slackware doesn't actually have an /sbin/nologin, but you can copy it from RedHat.

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I tried that in slackware and it worked, however it prevented those users from logging in to proftpd.

Title: banning users
Post by: Kintaro 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.

Title: banning users
Post by: Kintaro on 7 March 2004, 07:58

1 vote for bin