Yes, that's another way to do it. That way, if Greg ever decided he wanted a shell account, all you'd ned to do is edit his .profile. The "bogus shell" idea that was suggested is the way my ex-employer (a newengland ISP) used to do it. -Dave On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > How about creating a normal account for Greg and putting a "logout" > command in his profile?