time dependent login

Tom Reingold tr at samadams.princeton.edu
Tue Jun 12 00:52:56 AEST 1990


In article <1990Jun6.081403.10065 at hawkmoon.MN.ORG> det at hawkmoon.MN.ORG
(Derek E. Terveer) writes:

$ On sun os systems, which are bsd derivitives, if a user attempts to login
$ without a home directory, they *are* allowed to login and are plopped into
$ "/", i.e., root.

That's not the point.  I think you are responding to someone whose
suggestion was to make the home directory owned by root and
*unreadable* and *unwritable* to the user.  The question is, would
*this* prevent a login?
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                                        Tom Reingold
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