On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:56:27 +0100, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote: > Am Mo, den 21.02.2005 schrieb Michiel van Es um 15:46: > > > when I use useradd of adduser in CentOS 3 or 4, the default shell a user > > gets /bin/bash. > > I want this to be changed to /bin/false for security reasons... > > How can I accomplish this? > > useradd --help --> -s Shell > > So just use that parameter like "-s /bin/false". > > Alexander I think what he means to do is not add that parameter each time he uses `useradd' I believe the file you want to look for is /etc/default/useradd or somesuch. Thanks! -Wes