This is giving me some grief, and I couldn''t get anything decent from Google. What shell is the best to allow things like vacation to work, but not allow logins. It seems that /bin/false used to work in RedHat 9, but not in Centos 4. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don''t!!!!
/sbin/nologin? Just guessing... On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Scott Silva wrote:> This is giving me some grief, and I couldn''t get anything decent from Google. > What shell is the best to allow things like vacation to work, but not allow > logins. > It seems that /bin/false used to work in RedHat 9, but not in Centos 4. > > >
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 12:58:25PM -0800, Scott Silva wrote:> This is giving me some grief, and I couldn''t get anything decent from Google. > What shell is the best to allow things like vacation to work, but not allow > logins. > It seems that /bin/false used to work in RedHat 9, but not in Centos 4.Well there''s /sbin/nologin. Most anything should work you just need to have it listed in /etc/shells. Ray