Re: Establishing a mail-only account?
--On Wednesday, July 28, 2004 11:39 AM -0400 Edward Croft
<ecroft(a)OPENRATINGS.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 11:36, Christian Loza wrote:
> > > Edit /etc/passwd and change the shell set for the existing user to
> > > /bin/false. For new user creation use "useradd -s /bin/false".
You can also use usermod -s /bin/false username to modify current users
rather than editing the /etc/passwd file.
chsh (change shell) was designed for this function.