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Date:      Tue, 5 Feb 2002 15:39:03 +0000
From:      Ceri <setantae@submonkey.net>
To:        Scott Gerhardt <scott@gerhardt-it.com>
Cc:        Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Shells Question
Message-ID:  <20020205153903.GA37521@rhadamanth>
In-Reply-To: <KPEMLBLEMPMHGLJOCDEGCEJKDMAA.scott@gerhardt-it.com>
References:  <20020205090511.GC29186@rhadamanth> <KPEMLBLEMPMHGLJOCDEGCEJKDMAA.scott@gerhardt-it.com>

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On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:25:18AM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote:
>    > On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 02:02:07PM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote:
>    > >
>    > >    > Oh, okay.  Then I would recommend /usr/ports/sysutils/no-login
>    > >    >
>    > >    > It's an actualy C program, so it avoids spawning a new shell.
>    > >    >
>    > >    > On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 01:45:02PM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote:
>    > >
>    > >
>    > > I can still use /nonexistent which spawns nothing?
>    >
>    > ftpd shouldn't let you in with /nonexistent set as the shell.
>    >
>    > man ftpd :
>    >
>    >            4.   The user must have a standard shell returned by
>    >                 getusershell(3).
>    >
>    > Ceri
> 
> I just created a user with /nonexistent for a shell and added /nonexistent
> to /etc/shells and ftpd works fine.
> 
> Give it a try yourself.

Adding it to /etc/shells makes it "standard shell returned by getusershell(3)".

Not much mystery there :)

Ceri

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