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 at 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 at 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos