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From: det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: time dependent login
Message-ID: <1990Jun6.081403.10065@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
Date: 6 Jun 90 08:14:03 GMT
Organization: Home System (One of the Eternal Champions)
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In article <1990May29.194446.12623@cbnewsh.att.com> ijk@cbnewsh.att.com (ihor.j.kinal) writes:
> I would consider making the permissions of the user's home directory
> as 000 - this should prevent the user from logging in; if not, then
> mv the dir to a holding area.  If you don't have a home directory, then
> you can't log in, at least on all the systems I've worked with.
> [All non-BSD, but I imagine that they should be the same].

On sun os systems, which are bsd derivitives, if a user attempts to login
without a home directory, they *are* allowed to login and are plopped into
"/", i.e., root.

derek
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Derek Terveer		det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG