Preventing users from loggin into a unix box

From: Ram Meenakshisundaram <rmeenaks_at_olf.com>
Date: Thu Apr 19 16:52:57 2001

Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> maybe I'm just being dense, but wouldn't the easiest solution be to just
> not give others accounts on your box??
>
> bill
>

Yes that would work, but if you are on a network running NIS (YP),
with several other users, it wont as NIS maintains the accounts not
my local machine...

Ram

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Received on Thu Apr 19 2001 - 16:52:57 BST