[Centos] how to change default shell when using adduser/useradd

[mbottrell at gmail.com (Matt Bottrell)]

adduser -s /bin/false loginname

if the  user is already created... you can use chsh to change their shell.
ie: chsh -s /bin/false loginname

Refer to useradd(8) manual page.


On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:46:53 +0100, Michiel van Es <michiele@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> when I use useradd of adduser in CentOS 3 or 4, the default shell a user
> gets /bin/bash.
> I want this to be changed to /bin/false for security reasons...
> How can I accomplish this?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> --
> 
> Michiel
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