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From: "Nicholas J. Dear" <ndear@areti.net>
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I think a lot of FTPd's will not let you login unless you have a valid shell 
however.

N.

On 23 May 2001, at 17:15, Enriko Groen wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: alexus [mailto:ml@db.nexgen.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 17:11
> > To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
> > Subject: restriction of user
> > 
> > 
> > how can i disallow certain users shell access but do not 
> > restrict ftp/mail
> > acccess?
> 
> Set their logon shell to /nonexistent (or /sbin/nologin) instead of /bin/sh
> in your /etc/passwd file.
> 
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