From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 23 05:29:47 2003 Return-Path: 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 827EC37B401 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 05:29:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.crc.co.za (home.crc.co.za [196.36.165.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AEDE43F93 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 05:29:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doron@home.crc.co.za) Received: (from root@localhost) by home.crc.co.za (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h5NCTUja010196 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:29:30 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from doron@home.crc.co.za) Received: from dman ([192.168.1.8]) by home.crc.co.za (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5NCTLho010171 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:29:26 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from doron@home.crc.co.za) From: "Doron Shmaryahu" To: Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:29:27 +0200 Message-ID: <000001c33983$17cb6310$0801a8c0@dman> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <3EF6E6A3.8060207@buddydog.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 1.0.12.3 - (http://pldaniels.com/inflex/) Subject: RE: creating ftp users! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:29:47 -0000 Hi, I would also suggest limiting ftp users to their respective home dir. = You can do this simply by creating a file /etc/ftpchroot and putting all the usernames in there. Doron Shmaryahu -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan = Arnold Sent: 23 June 2003 01:38 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: creating ftp users! > How to create users for Ftp server(inetd)?=20 You just use the 'adduser' command normally, to add a "normal" user. If they are just going to be doing ftp, you can use the /sbin/nologin for their shell, so they can't login. --=20 Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD blog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"