Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.nla.gov.au!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!narses.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to permit FTP w/o giving shell access? Date: 12 Mar 1996 00:07:54 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4i2f8q$16o@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4i0p0k$jtj@muenchen.photogrammetrie.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 mehldau@photogrammetrie.de (Gerhard Mehldau) writes: > I would like to give some users access to a (FreeBSD 2.1) > system *without* allowing them to login directly. I've > tried setting their shell to /nonexistent, but that also > prevents them from using ftp. Any ideas? Use /sbin/nologin, and include this one into /etc/shells. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)