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Administering user accounts

Setting passwords for dial-in lines

You can define special dial-in passwords on selected tty lines, requiring selected classes of users to enter dial-in passwords. Logging information, including the last time of connection, is stored just as with normal logins.

Specific dial-in lines that require passwords are defined in the file /etc/dialups. The format is one tty device name per line, for example:

   /dev/tty1A
   /dev/tty5C
The actual dialup passwords are kept in the file /etc/d_passwd. The password format is the same one used in /etc/passwd. The first field (``user name'') in /etc/d_passwd is not a user name, but the name of a shell program (for example, /bin/sh) used in /etc/passwd. If the login shell of the user attempting to log in (on a tty line listed in /etc/dialups) is listed in /etc/d_passwd, then the user is prompted for the dial-in password stored in /etc/d_passwd.

Use this command line for creating a dial-in password:

passwd -m dialname

Change the password for dialup shell dialname (listed in /etc/d_passwd). If dialname begins with a slash (/) the entire shell name must match. Otherwise the password for every shell whose basename is dialname is changed. Only the superuser can change a dialup shell password.


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