Re: [SLUG] Limiting terminal access to root

From: Logan Tygart (thelogan@allyourbase-arebelongto.us)
Date: Tue Mar 11 2008 - 18:16:50 EST


On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 11:33 -0500, Rich Morgan wrote:
> Hey guys and gals, an interesting forum question was posted by a friend
> of mine and I'd like to get your take on it: How do you limit access to
> the command line to just root? That is to say, not allow a user account
> to access a terminal at all.

Just set their shell to /bin/false.

Logan

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