From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 30 16:14:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA18856 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 30 Nov 1996 16:14:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA18760 for ; Sat, 30 Nov 1996 16:14:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id BAA29879; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 01:12:38 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id BAA08086; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 01:12:38 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id AAA04331; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 00:25:20 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611302325.AAA04331@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: modifications to ftpd to support restricted users To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 00:25:20 +2500 (MET) Cc: melvin@zytek.com (Stephen Melvin) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199611302300.PAA29203@syzygy.zytek.com> from Stephen Melvin at "Nov 30, 96 03:00:21 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Stephen Melvin wrote: > I haven't read hackers in a while so accept my apologies if this is > redundant or inappropriate. I thought this might be of use. I have > need for an FTP-only login that is restricted like the anonymous > login (i.e. chroot'ed) but requires a password. Just curious: is there any reason why you haven't used wuftpd for this purpose? IMHO, it supports such an intention out of the box. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)