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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!ra.nrl.navy.mil!news.math.psu.edu!chi-news.cic.net!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!surfnet.nl!newshost.vu.nl!cs.vu.nl!sun4nl!xs4all!usenet From: Sander Temme <sctemme@xs4all.nl> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to permit FTP w/o giving shell access? Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 13:47:09 +0100 Organization: Wherever Lines: 21 Message-ID: <314420CD.3F54BC7E@xs4all.nl> References: <4i0p0k$jtj@muenchen.photogrammetrie.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: asd03-29.dial.xs4all.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) To: Gerhard Mehldau <mehldau@photogrammetrie.de> Gerhard Mehldau wrote: > > 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? > Add /nonexistent to the file /etc/shells . Ftpd will not allow users to connect who are not using one of these shells. Otherwise, this is the way to go. S. -- Sander the Sybersurfer sctemme@xs4all.nl Powered by FreeBSD http://www.xs4all.nl/~sctemme Finger sctemme@xs4all.nl for PGP Public Key.