----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip S Tellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 4:08 PM Subject: Re: [LIH] user creation.
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Binand Raj S. wrote: > > > I am not sure a shell like /bin/bash -r is allowed in /etc/passwd. > > Maybe you should get rbash compiled (which redhat does not do by > > ln -s bash rbash > > does the trick. bash checks argv[0] on startup, and if it is rbash, > sets the -r flag. that seems the same as on my suse box.it has /usr/bin/rbash listed in /etc/shells and /usr/bin/rbash turns out to be a link to ../../bin/bash.i guess /etc/default/useradd can be edited to change the defaults that useradd can take from the system (at least on redhat and suse). i tried creating a test user and made the default shell as /usr/bin/rbash in /etc/passwd.he does not seem to be having any problems so far in sending and recieving mails thru smtp and pop/imap and even with squirelmail. regards, manohar _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
