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From: mehldau@photogrammetrie.de (Gerhard Mehldau)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: How to permit FTP w/o giving shell access?
Date: 11 Mar 1996 08:41:56 GMT
Organization: Photogrammetrie GmbH
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Hello world,

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?

Thanks for any help,

Gerhard

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    Gerhard Mehldau
    Photogrammetrie GmbH       mailto:mehldau@photogrammetrie.de
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