Re: Radius Question

David Denney (daud@dimensional.com)
Mon, 6 Nov 1995 17:04:21 -0700 (MST)

On Sun, 5 Nov 1995, William Bulley wrote:
> According to Hugh Messenger:
> > I have several users who I don't want to give shells to, but I do
> > want to be able to dial in through my PM2's using UNIX-PW.
> The presence of a line in /etc/shells does not mean you have to
> "give shells to" them. The entry in the /etc/passwd file and the
> /etc/shells file could be /bin/false (not a very useful shell!)
> > I don't want to put /bin/false into /etc/shells !!
> Oh. Well, nevermind... ;^)

Why not just make a prog/script that returns false,
like /bin/false, but says 'PPP Access only' if you
login to it. Then put THAT into /etc/shells.

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