Ending a session when user exits a program.

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Kyle Faber wrote:

> I have a user who, when the login will have a simple program running, called
> from .bashrc.  This program gives them guided access to some system
> resources, like Lynx, pine and some others.
>
> What I want to eliminate is the ability for that user to exit the program, and
> drop to shell.  But so far as I can tell, I have to allow them this same
> shell access in order to get in.  If they were logged out when they exited
> this program, that would be sufficient.

Don't use a real shell for their login command (last field in
/etc/passwd).  Just have it run that simple program.

Or use some type of restricted shell, like rbash, and force them to only
have limited commands.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/