Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 22:30:13 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew Boothman <andrew@ukug.uk.FreeBSD.org> To: Guy Phillips <guy@mrguy.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Adduser Warnings Message-ID: <XFMail.990828223013.andrew@ukug.uk.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <199908272019.PAA15314@db.geocrawler.com>
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On 27-Aug-99 Geocrawler.com wrote: > This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Guy Phillips" <guy@mrguy.com> > Be sure to reply to that address. > > I am using 3.2 stable. > > I blocked users access to telnet and only allowed ftp access. I did this in > chpass by changing their shell to /bin/ftponly and then placing them in the > ftpchroot file. Of course this shell does not exist. All works well!! None of > the selected users can telnet in and they are locked into their home > directories when using FTP. Surely it makes more sense to set the shell to /sbin/nologin and then the system does understand what program to present users with when they login? --- Andrew Boothman <andrew@ukug.uk.FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD UK User Group http://ukug.uk.FreeBSD.org/~andrew/ http://ukug.uk.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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