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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!the-fly.zip.com.au!brister From: brister@zip.com.au (James Brister) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to permit FTP w/o giving shell access? Date: 13 Mar 1996 06:35:10 GMT Organization: Internet Software Consortium Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4i5qau$4nh@the-fly.zip.com.au> References: <4i0p0k$jtj@muenchen.photogrammetrie.de> <3144EED8.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: zipper.zip.com.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@FreeBSD.org) wrote: : 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: Note I don't (yet) run FreeBSD, but I do run BSD/OS, which is pretty similar I think. How 'bout making their shell be /bin/false. Making sure that /bin/false is a legal shell (in /etc/shells on a BSD/OS system). James -- James Brister brister@vix.com The Internet Software Consortium