From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 23 14:09:41 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id OAA25561 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Dec 1996 14:09:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id OAA25556 for ; Mon, 23 Dec 1996 14:09:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.4/8.7.5) id PAA00935; Mon, 23 Dec 1996 15:07:50 -0700 (MST) From: Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199612232207.PAA00935@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: Running a shell instead of getty? To: andrew@ugh.net.au (Andrew) Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 15:07:49 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Andrew" at Dec 23, 96 10:47:34 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I solved that with the help of > login.access but ftp dosn't apparently work when you have no password. I > created another user with a password and put us both in the same group and > have a script that rns from cron that copies the permissions from the user > field to the group field for every file owned by either user but its still > a hastle. > > If I could just run shells on my Vs things would be much easier :-) All this just to avoid logging in? Sounds like walking a mile to avoid jumping a foot, to me. ;^) You can have two users in the passwd file with the same uid. This would allow you to login with no password, and use the "other" login name to login with a password for ftp. Have you tried just putting 'login username' as the program to run in /etc/ttys? This should accomplish what you're looking for without hacking up anything. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com