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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!chi-news.cic.net!news.enteract.com!news.inap.net!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!news.simplex.nl!xs1!rob From: rob@xs1.simplex.nl (Rob Simons) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to permit FTP w/o giving shell access? Date: 13 Mar 1996 12:18:28 GMT Organization: SimpleX Networking Amsterdam Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4i6eek$bcv@news.simplex.nl> References: <4i0p0k$jtj@muenchen.photogrammetrie.de> <4i2f8q$16o@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: xs1.simplex.nl X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : 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. I second this, in favor of all other postings like /bin/true /bin/sync exit in profile etc. Though I must say I'd have named the 'nologin' script '/bin/xsh' ;-) Note! Although users cannot log into your system, they can receive email (password file entry) and fetch it though a POP server (if you're running that of course) - Rob. -- /*--------------------------------------------------------------*\ /* Rob Simons | rob@simplex.nl *\ /* ------------ | ------------- | -------- | ------- *\ /* Novell Netware System Operator | UNIX system operator *\ /*--------------------------------------------------------------*\