From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 2 6:57:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jedi.burnit.net (jedi.burnit.net [151.198.231.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1DF214D5A for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 06:57:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wharton@burnit.net) Received: from localhost (wharton@localhost) by jedi.burnit.net (8.9.2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA12564; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 10:02:07 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 10:02:07 -0500 (EST) From: "Daniel J. Wharton" To: Shawn Ramsey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disabling Telnet (DING DING DING) In-Reply-To: <19990301173046.A5177@cpl.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG DING DING DING we have a winner. Shawn Ramsey had the correct answer. This is how you disable telnet but allow FTP... THANK YOU!!! DAN WHARTON ----------------------------------------- System Administrator THE BURNIT NETWORK - www.burnit.net Director of Network Operations BIG SECRET - www.bigsecret.org ----------------------------------------- On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Shawn Ramsey wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone could tell me how I can prevent users from > > telneting in without disabling FTP access as well. I want people to be > > able to FTP in and update their websites, but not be able to TELNET in. > > > > I already tried setting their shell to /sbin/nologin, but that disables > > FTP access as well. Thank you very much in advance for any advice. > > Add : > > /sbin/nologin > > > to the file /etc/shells > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message