On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:30 PM, APseudoUtopia <apseudouto...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Glen Barber <glen.j.bar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:24 PM, APseudoUtopia <apseudouto...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>>
>>> Sorry to reply again, but I have some further information.
>>>
>>> I used chpass to change the shell of the jailuser account. I tried
>>> /bin/sh, /bin/csh, /bin/tcsh, and /sbin/nologin. All of those gave the
>>> same "Permission denied" error. Even nologin gave "Permission denied"
>>> instead of "This account is currently not available."
>>
>> What happens with /bin/false ?
>>
>> --
>> Glen Barber
>>
>
> Same thing:
>
> jailuser:*:1001:1001:User &:/home/jailuser:/bin/false
>
> # su jailuser
> su: /bin/false: Permission denied
>

Have you created another user to test?

FWIW, I was wrong about the location of 'false' - it is
/usr/bin/false, not /bin/false - you should have received 'command not
found'.

-- 
Glen Barber
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