Re: Different ways of locking accounts

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 12:44:18AM +0800, Wei Chen wrote:

Will there be problem if I lock an account with one program and unlock with
another?

I don't know. Why don't you try it and see? :-)

BTW, both methods lock shells as well as ftp and sftp. Changing the shell to
/usr/sbin/nologin allows ftp but still prevents sftp.
Is there a method that locks shell but allows ftp and sftp? Thanks.

I think that you just described it. Change the user's shell to
/bin/false or something similar.

Regards,

-Roberto
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