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Title: Standard User Login Service
Post by: Nick Orphan on August 10, 2001, 01:41:02 AM

I am using e-smith 4.1.2.  How do I enable the standard user login service?

Title: Re: Standard User Login Service
Post by: Geoff Bennion on August 10, 2001, 08:31:18 PM

Do you mean shell access on the e-smith box ?

if so use

chsh -u /bin/bash

or

chsh -u /bin/sh

Title: Re: Standard User Login Service
Post by: Nick Orphan on August 10, 2001, 11:21:51 PM

I am a newbiew on this, so I guess I am referring to shell access.  If I use ssh and login into the box using an id other than root or admin I get the login service has been disabled.  So if my id is jdoe on this box what is the syntax to login.

Title: Re: Standard User Login Service
Post by: Des Dougan on August 10, 2001, 11:30:28 PM

E-smith is setup by default to deny shell access to all non-admin users (i.e. other than root and admin). You should carefully consider why you need to grant command-line access to other users. Out of the box, e-smith supports SMB (i.e. Windows networking) and AppleTalk client connections.

What do you expect your users to gain with a shell prompt?

If you need to provide write access for FTP, for example, I believe (as I don't use FTP, I'm not 100% clear) that you can do this via the standard features in the e-smith manager.

Des Dougan