I think you are correct that that would create an account that George would not be able to log into.
On Jan 18, 2016, at 5:04 PM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
I need/desire to set up a userID for an SSH tunnel, but not allow said user to have a login to the server.
For the user to set up the tunnel with:
ssh -p 1234 -L 8080:192.168.1.4:80 george@gateway.foo.com
Where george would use a password instead of a stored SSH key, could george be created with:
useradd -s /sbin/nologin -c "George" george
passwd george
thanks
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