How can I block specific users from accessing Open OnDemand

[jeff.ohrstrom]

You (both) need to set the users’ shell to something like /disabled or /bin/false or similar and use the nginx configuration disabled_shell to the shell you set. We’ll recognize that the users’ shell is the disabled shell and won’t boot the PUN.

Here’s a similar topic.

/bin/true account access to OnDemand

OK, so if we set it to say “/bin/bash”, the user will be denied accessing bash? How would that affect the nginx? We already disable the shells by setting the user’s shell to “/bin/true”, our goal is to make nginx aware of that and not start even if the user authenticates with the CAS.