Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!crdgw1!crdgw1.ge.com!barnett From: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Shutting off accounts (was: "Re: Multiple Root ID's ...") Keywords: accounts, /dev/null, shutoff, `Woof!' Message-ID: <2458@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 21 Sep 89 16:23:54 GMT References: <435@lxn.eds.com> <347@galadriel.bt.co.uk> <4183@buengc.BU.EDU> <7383@rpi.edu> <2449@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <19711@mimsy.UUCP> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 15 In-reply-to: kilroy@mimsy.UUCP (kilroy hasn't been here in *weeks*) In article <19711@mimsy.UUCP>, kilroy@mimsy (kilroy hasn't been here in *weeks*) writes: >Changing the password field to something invalid (eg, `*') is more >straightforward Changing the password field isn't enough. They can get in using /etc/hosts.equiv or .rhosts. > but if you really want to keep an account from being >used by changing the shell I'd recommend /usr/ucb/yes . . . Why is 'yes(1)' better than 'true(1)' ? -- Bruce G. Barnett uunet!crdgw1!barnett