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From: mathisen@dali.cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Logging a User Off
Message-ID: <2409@dali>
Date: 12 Sep 90 02:55:01 GMT
References: <1990Sep11.173008.274@mccc.uucp>
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Organization: Montana State University, Dept. of Computer Science, Bozeman MT 59717
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In article <1990Sep11.173008.274@mccc.uucp> pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>code of the passwd command and then exit if it's not 0.  BUT, simply
>executing "exit" doesn't abort the login; it aborts /etc/profile!  What
>can I execute to terminate the login of a user who fails to select a
>valid password?



Well, long ago I ran into something like this.  My cheap cop-out kludge was
to 'exec /bin/login', and let things run their course.  If they didn't log
in in the timeout interval, getty would takeover, otherwise if they got logged
in, the user would have another chance to get things right.