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- From: minnebo@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Brian P. Minnebo)
- Subject: Re: Service Accounts running X login
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.143330.11982@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
- Summary: or su
- Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
- References: <1992Aug25.152709.23868@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <1992Aug26.124449.3475@aosg.gsf.dec.com> <BtnzB3.49K@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:33:30 GMT
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- In article <BtnzB3.49K@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca> idallen@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (Ian! D. Allen [CGL]) writes:
- |>> Are there any possibilities to control the actions of some special accounts
- |>> after the X window login ?
- |>
- |>You can modify the .profile or .cshrc to be a "captive" account so that all
- |>that you can do is perform a shutdown or exit.
- |
- |No you cannot. A user logging in can hit BREAK at just the right
- |point to cause the .profile or .cshrc to be skipped, allowing a normal
- |unrestricted login shell. Don't do this.
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- or worse, they can su to the account, which wont execute .profile.
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- Brian
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