On Jul 27, 2004 at 11:29, david in a soothing rage wrote: >At 11:19 AM 7/27/2004, you wrote: >>On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 10:55, Ding Li wrote: >> > What's difference between /bin/false and /sbin/nologin? >> >>/sbin/nologin displays a configurable message that the account is not >>available, /bin/false does not. man login is your friend. > >Yes, Brian..... man login is indeed my friend. The real problem is that I >didn't think to look there. I googled stuff like >Linux Users, did man useradd, man pam, but never having typed in "login", I >didn't think to look there. Aktually, one thing you could use is 'man -k <word>'. This will print a list of man pages. From there you can test to see which man page is more appropiate. N.Emile... -- Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org) Switch to: http://www.speakeasy.net/refer/190653 Zombie processes haunting the computer 14:47:11 up 29 days, 8:02, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
