[juneau-lug] Re: lock user account with a warning
- From: "Chris Ruschmann" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 14:15:46 -0800
You can change there default shell to /sbin/nologin or /bin/false
On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 14:13 -0800, James Zuelow wrote:
> Does anyone know of a method to lock a user account and present a message or
> warning when that user attempts to log in?
>
> issuing `passwd -l user` will lock the user account out - but the system will
> just tell them that they typed the wrong password.
>
> What I'd like is for the system to give an arbitrary message when they fail -
>
> "Your account is locked until you clean your room"
>
> is the specific message I have in mind.
>
> Ideas?
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