From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 18 11:15:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA14170 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:15:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA14063 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:14:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA13775; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:14:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:14:35 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Dante Cannarozzi cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp server In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980217153214.006c43f4@mail.cec.wustl.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Dante Cannarozzi wrote: > I recently setup FreeBSD 2.2.5 on my CTX Cyrix 233 and I love it so far... > I also setup WU-ftpd... but am having trouble setting up the users. I've > made a user group called "user" and have a new user called "dave". I'd like > to have him log into my ftp and "chroot" him... or make him see only "/" as > his root dir... instead of "/var/ftp" ... I get everything setup right (I > think) and I don't have him in "ftpusers" ... but when I test the login w/ > the right password it says "user dave denied. bad shell or username in > /usr/local/etc/ftpusers" He's not in that ftpusers either. His shell is > nonexistent.. and I saw that pass.wd says that it won't all people in > unless they have /bin/csh as a shell... but how do I change that... or how > do I setup the right permissions... thanks in advance Add /nonexistent to /etc/shells. Are you basically giving Dave anonymous access? Then why bother with a username? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message