Re: Restricting a user to console logins only

From: Joshua Kugler <joshua.kugler@uaf.edu>
Date: Mon Aug 29 2005 - 09:08:09 AKDT

On Friday 26 August 2005 15:05, Joshua Kugler wrote:
> I've done some googling and some bash scripting experimentation, and
> haven't found what I'm looking for. Is there an easy to to restrict a user
> to logging in to the console *only*? For reboot/maintenance purposes I
> need a user (besides my personal user account) that can log into the
> console, and then us to root. But, I don't want that user to be able to
> ssh in. I'm sure it's possible, I just haven't found out how.
>
> j----- k-----

Thank you all for your recommendations! Those will work. It never even
occurred to me to look at SSH directly for something like that. :)

j----- k-----

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Joshua Kugler
CDE System Administrator
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