Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!lethe!torsqnt!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!haven!mimsy!kilroy
From: kilroy@mimsy.UUCP (She Blinded Me With Science)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Shutting off accounts
Summary: Don't be boring.
Keywords: accounts, /dev/null, shutoff, `Woof!'
Message-ID: <19747@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 22 Sep 89 14:49:04 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> <2458@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Reply-To: kilroy@mimsy.umd.edu.UUCP (Darren F. Provine)
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <2458@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com
	(Bruce Barnett) writes:
>
>Changing the password field isn't enough. They can get in using
>/etc/hosts.equiv or .rhosts.

This is true if you allow net logins, of course.  (On the machines at
the NIH we aren't even *on* a network, so . . .)

On mimsy there is a directory called /etc/restrict/login, in which you
can create a file for a user whose account has been restricted and it
will let them know what & why.  I do not know if this is a BSD standard
or a local UMD hack (Mr. Torek produces those rather frequently  8^).


>Why is 'yes(1)' better than 'true(1)' ?

Because it's more *interesting*.


kilroy@mimsy.umd.edu        Darren F. Provine         ...uunet!mimsy!kilroy
"The main problem I have with cats is, they're not dogs." -- Kevin Cowherd