From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 30 12:04:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA05780 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 12:04:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA05774 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 12:04:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA17995; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 12:03:20 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 12:03:20 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Jesmond Navarro cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Types of groups In-Reply-To: <01bce55a$647d93a0$4fa415c2@pingpong.keyworld.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Jesmond Navarro wrote: > Hi everyone, > I installed FreeBSD 2.2.2 on an Intel Pentium. It runs Apache web > server, sendmail daemon and wu-ftp daemon. I need to set up users that can > only send and receive mail, others to telnet only and others that can ftp > only. Can someone please give me some hints how to do it. Sorry for the > ignorance but I am still new to groups and rights. Separately or at the same time? Mail is simple -- use POP and give them an invalid shell. FTP is simple -- give them a shell not in /etc/shells. telnet is harder -- if they can telnet in they can use the above. If you're more specific as to how you need to restrict users we can be more helpful. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major