From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jun 25 17:41:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA03127 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 17:41:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from trantor.galaxia.com (terminus.galaxia.com [204.255.210.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA03009 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 17:40:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dave@galaxia.com) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by trantor.galaxia.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA05987; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 20:39:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dave@galaxia.com) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 20:39:16 -0400 (EDT) From: "David H. Brierley" To: Evren Yurtesen cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nonexistent In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > hello > I have set my users to not to have shell access by setting > their shell to /nonexistent I use wu-ftpd for ftp access... > but now it does not let people do ftp to server... > what should I do? > I did not want to give shell access to users because > of security reasons. What I do is to set the users shell to /usr/bin/passwd and then add /usr/bin/passwd to the /etc/shells file. The real key to whatever you do here is that the value in the shell field must be listed in /etc/shells or ftp will not work. The reason I use the passwd program is that it provides the users with a means of changing their password without requiring intervention by a staff member. Once the users realize that this means they can change their password to something that nobody else knows they tend to appreciate it. -- David H. Brierley dave@galaxia.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message