Re: user/717: xdm disregards nologin shell

[Matthieu Herrb <matthieu@laas.fr>]

You wrote (in your message from Tue 16)
 > 	System      : OpenBSD 2.4
 > 	Architecture: OpenBSD.alpha
 > 	Machine     : alpha
 > >Description:
 > 	
 > 	When a user with /sbin/nologin as a shell xdm accepts 
 > 	this user in stead of giving the /etc/nologin.txt
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > 	create valid user with /sbin/nologin as shell.
 > 	provide user with password
 > 	login as user via xdm

Hmm, do you mean /sbin/nologin is in your /etc/shells ?

If not, I don't know why this doesn't work on the alpha, but OpenBSD
definatly has code to reject logins from users with shells not in
/etc/shells. Cf
<http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/X11/xc/programs/xdm/greeter/verify.c>

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					Matthieu