Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 16:39:04 -0600 (MDT) From: Jonathon Doran <doranj@Colorado.EDU> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boneheaded Question Message-ID: <199906292239.QAA05010@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990629163028.014a1c30@pop.bois.uswest.net> from "Ken" at Jun 29, 99 04:30:28 pm
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> It's almost too embarrassing to ask, but could somebody please clue me into > how to properly configure FTP access? I'm not running anonymous FTP, but > have a couple MAC heads who need to upload some stuff to a web directory, > but don't need shell accts. You have a couple of choices. You could enable anonymous ftp, or you could create accounts for the Mac users but diallow shell access. Most sites would prefer the latter for security reasons. I would create their accounts, and place them in a macuser group (so they can have group write access to parts of the web tree. I would assign them a shell like /sbin/ftponly (note: this doesn't exist yet). I would then make a link from /sbin/nologin to /sbin/ftponly. Then add /sbin/ftponly to /etc/shells (so ftpd will allow them to connect). At this point, the mac users can login via ftpd, but any attempt to start a shell will result in a message like: "This account is currently not available." This sounds like what you want. Jon Doran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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