From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 1 16:30:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fir.calcasieu.com (fir.calcasieu.com [209.99.46.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48A5E15432 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 16:30:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sysop@calcasieu.com) Received: from ns (cruft.austin.calcasieu.com [192.168.170.124]) by fir.calcasieu.com (8.8.8/8.8.8-2.0) with SMTP id SAA18039; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 18:29:44 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990301182954.00831540@firewall> X-Sender: sysop@firewall X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 18:29:54 -0600 To: "Daniel J. Wharton" From: Don Read Subject: Re: Disabling Telnet Cc: In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG back on 05:25 PM 3/1/99 -0500, you said: > >I was wondering if anyone could tell me how I can prevent users from >telneting in without disabling FTP access as well. I want people to be >able to FTP in and update their websites, but not be able to TELNET in. > >I already tried setting their shell to /sbin/nologin, but that disables >FTP access as well. Thank you very much in advance for any advice. > set their shell to /sbin/nologin (or /usr/bin/false, or whatever) and add that to /etc/shells man getusershell ftpd Regards -- Don Read sysop@calcasieu.com EDP Manager dread@texas.net Calcasieu Lumber Co. Austin TX - There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message