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Re: Shot my foot off with chmod (the smoking gun): msg#00359

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Subject: Re: Shot my foot off with chmod (the smoking gun)

Keith Mastin wrote:
Dear NetBSD,

I managed to lock all users other than root out of my V1.6 system.
In the name of Internet security, I used chmod to keep etc, home, and other
directories and files from being seen from the web. I soon realized that I
could no longer log in as a regular user:


:)

...once you get this solved (if you can, I dunno, seems like a fubar?), you can do what you originally wanted to do by simply editing the passwd file so the home account of the users is /bin/nologin and make a file named /bin/nologin that contains a message, something like:

#!/bin/csh
Sorry, this account is only allowed to send/recieve email from this server. System logins are not permitted for your account. Please contact the Sys Admin for details.

HTH

have a look at /sbin/nologin

ariolc# cat /sbin/nologin
#! /bin/sh
echo "This account is currently not available."
exit 1

no need to re-invent the wheel:-)

regards

frank




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