From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 20 15:13:20 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F7DA37B401 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 15:13:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 818E143FAF for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 15:13:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1KNDCqR066853; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 12:13:16 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) id h1KNDC75066852; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 12:13:12 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 12:13:12 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Darryl Hoar Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp users - question Message-ID: <20030220231312.GA66761@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <005d01c2d92d$8d70c990$0701a8c0@darryl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <005d01c2d92d$8d70c990$0701a8c0@darryl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:15:18PM -0600, Darryl Hoar wrote: > Greetings, > I have a machine setup running 4.7 - stable. It is an internal machine. > How do I setup a user (so they can upload with ftp) but can't login at > the shell ? Is this possible ? Set up the users with a non-existent shell (eg: /nonexistent), and add the non-existent shell entry into /etc/shells. -- Jonathan Chen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted." -- Thomas B. Reed To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message