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Subject:Re: oh, yeah ... Whatshisname is coming back this weekend.
From:Thom Fitzpatrick
Date:Tue, 23 Aug 1994 08:37:30 -0700 (PDT)
>PS. The way to disable even this kind of salvageability (sp? :-) ) is to 
>change the shell in the /etc/passwd file to be some non-existent 
>program.  Then even ftp won't work.  Ask me how you can salvage a 
>system with everyone's login (including root) set to a non-existent
>shell program, and everyone logged out.

Ok, how?

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