Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 11:56:42 -0600 (CST) From: Alex Charalabidis <alex@wnm.net> To: Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com> Cc: Jason Halbert <res02jw5@gte.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP only user Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012191155160.79987-100000@earth.wnm.net> In-Reply-To: <200012191759.MAA98012@mail2.wmptl.com>
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On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Nathan Vidican wrote: > > I need to create a user that has very restricted access to the system. > > I need to allow access to my ftp to a lot of people but these people > > don't need access to telnet or ssh or any other service on my box. I > > would like to limit the user that way, as well as another way. I > > would also like to limit the user in what they can see. Is it > > possible to not allow the user to cd out of its home directory? I > > don't want them seeing anything outside of that dir if possible. > > > As far as limiting the users from being able to telnet/ssh, > unfortunately, (as far as I know anyhow), a user must have a valid > shell in order for ftpd to authenticate said user. I usually just their > login scripts and make them so the user cannot change them so as to log > them out immediately if they attempt telnet/rlogin/ssh logins. Give them /usr/bin/false for a shell and make sure it's listed in /etc/shells. -ac -- ============================================================== Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 System Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 Author, The Book of IRC http://www.bookofirc.com/ ============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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