Logging a User Off

[Wm E Davidsen Jr]

In article <1990Sep11.173008.274 at mccc.uucp> pjh at mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) writes:
|                                   I though I would examine the return
| code of the passwd command and then exit if it's not 0.  BUT, simply
| executing "exit" doesn't abort the login; it aborts /etc/profile!  What
| can I execute to terminate the login of a user who fails to select a
| valid password?

"kill -1 $$" should do it. I believe that you can simplify this by
assigning no password but using the password ageing feature of SysV to
force selection of a new password at login.
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bill davidsen	(davidsen at crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
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