[ale] "vacation" use

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Thu Apr 14 17:09:54 EDT 2005


Ryan Fish wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Geoffrey
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 2:50 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] "vacation" use
> 
> Ryan Fish wrote:
> 
>>By using /sbin/nologin in /etc/passwd (done when creating the users via
>>useradd of course).  Maybe I am phrasing this wrong...  Anyway, any ideas?
> 
> 
> How about giving them a shell, but setting their password to ! or some such?
> 
> These are their mail accounts.  They need their password to access the
> messages...

Ooops.... (engage brain before keyboard...)

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Until later, Geoffrey



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