Re: login.cfg and ODM

our user needs to change the temporary password that we have assigned.

he can do it when /usr/false is assigned to user's shell,
but when we lock the account no one can login, therefore there will be
no password change prompt.

we are looking to have a user like nobody, who can run some
processes but no one can login with that user id.

tried to set "user can login" and "user can login remotely" to false
but it does not let me change the temp password.

My main concern was changing login.cfg manually.
it there any command that will add additional shell to login.cfg.

I read a document that was saying if we change any conf file
that is in ODM, server will have problem in future as the config
in ODM is different to actual conf file.


is that true





Quoting "Hunter, Mark" <Mark.Hunter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

You can change it by hand if you need to.

Of course, the question is why you are trying to set it to /usr/bin/false
instead say account_locked=true or something.

Mark Hunter
Anheuser-Busch Cos.
MIS Consultant, ES&SO Server Planning and Integration
*Office: (314) 765-2339
*Email: Mark.Hunter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 3:27 PM
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Subject: login.cfg and ODM

Hello

I can not choose /usr/bin/false for user's shell login because it is not in
/etc/security/login.cfg.
should I add it directly to file or I should use smith or chfs.
and what will be the command if I should do it through command.

I know that it is the best practice to modify almost every thing through smith,
but was wondering if there is any way to find out which file is safe to edit
manually.
I mean how do I know that object is in ODM ?

Thanks
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