[CentOS] Shells

Ray Van Dolson rayvd at digitalpath.net
Mon Mar 27 21:01:50 UTC 2006


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



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