time dependent login

Derek E. Terveer det at hawkmoon.MN.ORG
Wed Jun 6 18:14:03 AEST 1990


In article <1990May29.194446.12623 at cbnewsh.att.com> ijk at cbnewsh.att.com (ihor.j.kinal) writes:
> I would consider making the permissions of the user's home directory
> as 000 - this should prevent the user from logging in; if not, then
> mv the dir to a holding area.  If you don't have a home directory, then
> you can't log in, at least on all the systems I've worked with.
> [All non-BSD, but I imagine that they should be the same].

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.

derek
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Derek Terveer		det at hawkmoon.MN.ORG



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