From owner-freebsd-questions  Wed Nov  7 16:39: 7 2001
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from webs1.accretive-networks.net (webs1.accretive-networks.net [207.246.154.13])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D163937B416
	for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Wed,  7 Nov 2001 16:39:05 -0800 (PST)
Received: from localhost (davidk@localhost)
	by webs1.accretive-networks.net (8.11.1/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fA80cxh67806;
	Wed, 7 Nov 2001 16:39:00 -0800 (PST)
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 16:38:59 -0800 (PST)
From: David Kirchner <davidk@accretivetg.com>
X-X-Sender:  <davidk@localhost>
To: BSD Freak <bsd-freak@mbox.com.au>
Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: FTP doesn't work unless user is assigned shell access
In-Reply-To: <5268b54f08.54f085268b@mbox.com.au>
Message-ID: <20011107163836.B44499-100000@localhost>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
List-ID: <freebsd-questions.FreeBSD.ORG>
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions)
List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-questions>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-questions>
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, BSD Freak wrote:

> Hiya all,
>
> Just in the process of beefing up security around here, so I decided
> that FTP users don't need shell access. So I edited the password
> databse and set their shell to /nonexistent and the /sbin/nologin
>
> After that they are refused FTP access...... Is there anyway I can stop
> users from having shell access jyst because they have an FTP account?
>
>
> Thank in advance......

This'll work fine - you just need to add the shell you set them up with in
/etc/shells


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message