On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:54:16AM +0100, Iago Rubio wrote: > > > Put a non working shell as default for this user. > > > [root@igloo root]# useradd -s /sbin/nologin nopasswd > > That'll make it kind of hard for the user to get any work done, won't it? > You've got a big bunch of users in your system with no login shells, and > they get their work done. > Check your /etc/passwd. There's users and then there's users. :) Not wanting regular (human) user accounts to be allowed to work with empty passwords is a good precaution against accidents. (See <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86414>, for an example of something that could happen.) Obviously your suggestion is good for system accounts. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
