Re: "valid shell"s

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 01:42:21AM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> ....and "whether accounts are real or not" - for just about any
> definition of "real" - is not the correct thing to test if you want to
> find out whether an account is allowed to use server-side FTP,
> sendmail's prog mailer, etc.

That's what the account class of PAM provides for a program.

Joerg