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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: nologin Date: 30 Nov 1995 21:47:36 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <49l8po$k3p@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <49f2tb$60j@news.simplex.nl> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 rob@Simplex.simplex.nl (Rob Simons) writes: > I was wondering why the /sbin/nologin thing is a shell script .. > Can't someone (who's fast enough, which is unlikely) interrupt > the script before the 'exit' statement ? This would exit his login shell -- and wipe out the user's session. > Also, will the .profile (if it exists) be executed even when > the user gets no entry ? No, since the user's login shell ain't /bin/sh. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)