[lug] CVS access only

Scott A. Herod herod at interact-tv.com
Wed Mar 14 18:53:28 MST 2001


Hello,

  I'm trying to set up a CVS site that is accessible through
ssh to some specific networked users but I don't won't them to
have login access.  Is there a standard way to do that?

  My thought is to give them /etc/passwd accounts with shells
set to a /bin/sh script which simply echo's "No login allowed".
Is that a reasonable and safe thing to do?  They will have real
passwords in /etc/shadow, just no shell in /etc/passwd.

Thanks,

Scott



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