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Re: +:*:0:0:::/bin/false does not work. Why?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen C. Tweedie)
Thu Jul 6 23:13:28 1995
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 04:07:59 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@presence.co.uk>
Reply-To: Stephen Tweedie <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
To: Konstantin Beznosov <beznosov@dizzy.fiu.edu>
cc: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu, beznosov@fiu.edu
In-Reply-To: <9507061454.AA14425@dizzy.fiu.edu>
Hi,
On Thu, 6 Jul 1995, Konstantin Beznosov wrote:
> I run Linux 1.2.3 slackware distribution. NIS (or NYS :) stuff comes with the
> distribution (n* diskets/subdirs).
>
> I found out that if I put a record
> +:*:0:0:::/bin/false
> in /etc/passwd to be able authorize users but do not allow them to log into the
> system ( i need it for some server authorization), it looks like the record
> does
> not work:
This was not completely implemented in libraries prior to libc-4.6.27.
Are you using an earlier version, perhaps?
Cheers,
Stephen.
--
Stephen Tweedie, Web13 <sct@web13.presence.co.uk>,
Dept. of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
