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From: jareth@golden.pvrr.ru (Oleg 'Jareth' Basoff)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FTP Users
Date: 10 Jul 1996 15:05:48 GMT
Organization: Brain Liquiding Fucktory
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Stephan Forth (stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de) wrote:
: Scott Gregory (sgregory@pubspo.hq.af.mil) wrote:
: : Is it possible to set up user accounts strictly for ftp?  I don't want
: : any of these users to be able to login (except for ftp).

: You could give them no shell. (e.g. /etc/noshell) As a quick
: solution.

the right solution is install wu-ftpd

--
 Jareth

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