From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 7 22:42:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop.idx.com.au (pop.idx.com.au [203.14.30.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C41D737BAF2 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 22:42:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from dannyh.freebsd.org (idxwc07-23.idx.com.au [203.166.2.23]) by pop.idx.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA11138; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 15:41:08 +1000 From: Danny To: "Richard E. Hawkins" , Michael Subject: Re: allowing ftp logins but not shell logins Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 15:46:51 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200007071730.NAA99997@fac13.ds.psu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00070815480104.00341@dannyh.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There is also a shell which is called ftponly (from /usr/ports)I believe So once you adduser It will prompt you to use sh or csh or ftponly Correct me if I am wrong about this. On Sat, 08 Jul 2000, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > What I would like to have is something where persons can drop off files in > > a certain directory and the files would be owned by a user foo or by a > > group foo. How can I go about setting this up. Pointers to man pages or > > anything else would be greatly appreciated. > > I can't tell you whether or not it's the *best* way, but you can make > their login shell /usr/bin/false, which means that a succesful login > merely runs false and exits . . . > > hawk > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- You are not authorized to use my email address for any purpose. This is a violation of my privacy. Unsolicited mail/posts is a "theft of service". Remove my email address from your databases immediately. You are only authorized to use my email address only in conjunction with address the issue in this email. ---------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message