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From: Stephen Fisher <lithium@cia-g.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to permit FTP w/o giving shell access?
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 17:55:35 -0700
Organization: New Mexico Internet Access
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It will work if you add their [/nonexistent] shell to /etc/shells

On 11 Mar 1996, 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?