On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Charlie Brady wrote:

> [...]
> That will work OK for telnet (if enabled) and for console login,
> but to enable SSH access you need to do: 
> # chsh -s /bin/bash user

And to be a bit more explicit - SSH (now) checks that you have a valid
path to a shell, and the standard Unix null==/bin/sh is not a valid path
to a shell. I foung that when upgrading from openssh-1.1 to 1.2

> Ideally this should be done via a web form - you could, for instance,
> enable shell access for members of a particular group, 

I like that one.

> or you could have a "shell" property for each user.

I don't like that one.

> It's not something e-smith plans to do at the moment.

And I agreee on that one :-)

Gordon

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