home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Path: sparky!uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a3431
- From: Neklan_Brozensky@mindlink.bc.ca (Neklan Brozensky)
- Subject: Re: SUMMARY: How to keep users from logging in
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 20:24:28 GMT
- Message-ID: <18409@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
- Lines: 29
-
- > Marc Fournier - Admin writes:
- >
- > Msg-ID: <1992Dec09.180324.21093@r-node.gts.org>
- > Posted: Wed, 09 Dec 1992 18:03:2
- >
- > Org. : R-node Public Access UNIX Information System (416-249-5366)
- >
- > In article <1992Dec8.181744.770@progress.com> rich@progress.COM (Rich
- > Lenihan) writes:
- > >
- > >3. Hack (or get pre-hacked) source for login program with /etc/nologin
- > >functionality already built in. While I don't really mind installing
- > >roll-your-own software, I don't have the time to support it.
- > >
- > Well...there is a 'login' replacement for SysV that I'm using
- > here that I haven't had a problem with yet...and it has a file called
- > /etc/usrtime that allows you to restrict access to specific users, or
- > times, or lines....or just restrict everyone like you want. It will
- > also present the user with a message as to 'why' they are locked out.
-
- Perhaps I'm missing the point of what's trying to get accomplished here, but
- has someone suggested just editing the /etc/profile and have a shell script
- check to some other file which contains users you don't want on or what ever
- criteria of exclusion you want to use.
-
- In some other thread some time ago... someone said never hack when you can
- use a shell wrapper. If I go and put someone else's hacked login program on
- my computer, (which is what is being suggested here) I really don't know
- *what* kind of security risk I've got.
-