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#! rnews 1303 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.nla.gov.au!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.tacom.army.mil!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to permit FTP w/o giving shell access? Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 19:26:16 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3144EED8.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <4i0p0k$jtj@muenchen.photogrammetrie.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Gerhard Mehldau <mehldau@photogrammetrie.de> Gerhard Mehldau wrote: > 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? I guess you could make their shell /bin/sh and then give them a .profile that says: exit 0 In it. There _might_ be a race here if your system is slow enough which lets them hit ^C before the exit, but I rather doubt that they'd have an easy time hitting it. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project