Re: Summary: How to fix root entry of passw

From: Stephen P. Potter (spp@dragonfly.cis.ufl.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 17 1994 - 12:47:43 CDT

In reply to: Charles E. MacMillan: "Re: Summary: How to fix root entry of passw"
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In article <2oqvn6$d1f@xochi.tezcat.com> root@tezcat.com (Charles E. MacMillan) writes:
>
>Hmm, not sure this would work. Under sunos if the users shell isn't
>in /etc/shells (or bourn/csh if there is no etc/shells) the user can't
>login.

    Are you sure of that? I have a few odd scripts that are called up as
   logins that do "bbs" related things, info-servers and the like, and I
   have never written those into /etc/shells.

The above statement is only valid for FTP logins. Normal logins are
unaffected by /etc/shells.

Steve

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