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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Reconciling users and services
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:47:05 +0100
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On Samstag 17 Januar 2009, Grant wrote:
> I have some users on a system and some services.  How can I make sure
> only certain users can log into certain services?  Do I need to
> explicitly define which users can log into each service?  Are there
> different types of users so that some can only log into certain
> services?
>
> For example, I know any user that has their shell set to /bin/nologin
> can't log into a shell.  How can I check on users' shell settings?

/etc/passwd?