[plug] telnet server question

[James Devenish]

In message <3F1E918D.8080309 at postnewspapers.com.au>
on Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 09:45:49PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> '/bin/false' users (usually daemons, etc) are unlikely to 
> log in normally anyway.

Yes, my complaint doesn't lie with using /bin/false for daemons, since
they don't have valid password. But for regular users, who have valid
password but aren't allowed to have shell access, /bin/false is just
weird. I would suggest porting OpenBSD's nologin (dibs! ;) which should
be exceedingly easy since the function of the programme is so 'trivial'
and it's probably in ANSI C. Like you say, a shell script would
basically do.