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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Logging a User Off
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Date: 12 Sep 90 14:39:35 GMT
References: <1990Sep11.173008.274@mccc.uucp>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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In article <1990Sep11.173008.274@mccc.uucp> pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) writes:
|                                   I though I would examine the return
| 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?

"kill -1 $$" should do it. I believe that you can simplify this by
assigning no password but using the password ageing feature of SysV to
force selection of a new password at login.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
    VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.