Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1998 15:48:59 -0500 From: "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net> To: "Ross McFarland" <rwmcfa1@pop.uky.edu>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: the su command and specifing who can telnet Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980405154859.00837490@midwest.net> In-Reply-To: <000d01bd60be$2d7a89a0$896969ce@win95-133>
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At 02:10 PM 4/5/98 -0400, Ross McFarland wrote: >>>> <excerpt><smaller>I have two hopefully quick questions. </smaller> <smaller>1) I've found and understand how the ftp access is controlled by a file, where and\or how can I control who can access the server by Telnet? I have a user name for apache to run under and would like to restrict its ability to log in from any where other than the console. </smaller></excerpt> <excerpt> Not sure on this one, but you could change the shell of the apach acount to...passwd( or whatever) then use su if tlnet access is needed.... </excerpt> #chsh grunty #Changing user database information for grunt. Login: grunt Password: hstTDhGgwy2vS7o Uid [#]: 1000 Gid [# or name]: 11000 Change [month day year]: Expire [month day year]: Class: default Home directory: /home/grunty Shell: /usr/bin/passwd Full Name: grunty Location: Office Phone: Home Phone: >>>> <smaller>2) how do I allow a user to su to root. I've tried setting group to 0(wheel) and using the log in class root, staff and everything else I can think of in every combination. when I try it always says</smaller> >>>>> Just add the user to /etc/group ....For example.. :32pm@cplkagan/etc>more group wheel:*:0:root,me,nextuser daemon:*:1:daemon kmem:*:2:root The beer is too cold, the daiquiris too fruitful, there's no place like home! Jimmy Buffett "The weather is here, Wish you were beautiful" Jon Lyons parrothd@midwest.net 87 HONDA VFR700 http://cplkagan.dyn.ml.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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