From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 23 06:37:18 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id GAA03767 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 23 Sep 1995 06:37:18 -0700 Received: from syzygy.zytek.com (syzygy.zytek.com [140.174.241.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA03760 for ; Sat, 23 Sep 1995 06:37:16 -0700 Received: (from melvin@localhost) by syzygy.zytek.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id GAA11796 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 23 Sep 1995 06:37:38 -0700 Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 06:37:38 -0700 From: Stephen Melvin Message-Id: <199509231337.GAA11796@syzygy.zytek.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: POP Mailboxes Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >Don't ever put the shell you give them in /etc/shells, because then they >will have ftp access to your system. ftpd checks /etc/shells for valid >shells. :-) > Thanks for the sample shell for non-shell accounts, but ftp access is exactly the reason that in many cases you *need* to put an entry in /etc/shells. You want them to have POP access to their email, and you want them to be able to update via ftp their WWW files, but you don't want to give them shell access. (At least this is the case for one group of users on a system that I run.) Stephen Melvin melvin@zytek.com