richard@aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) (04/18/91)
We have a user "guest" who exists for X25 file transfer purposes, with no password. This user's login shell was /bin/login, which was intended to prevent any logging in on this account. However, we recently discovered several entries in wtmp suggesting that someone had been logged in on this account for several hours (login normally times out after 60 seconds). Can anyone explain this? I have now made guest's shell be a program which immediately exits. Can anyone see any problems with this? Richard Tobin, JANET: R.Tobin@uk.ac.ed AI Applications Institute, ARPA: R.Tobin%uk.ac.ed@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Edinburgh University. UUCP: ...!ukc!ed.ac.uk!R.Tobin