Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 17:28:18 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Nick Wilson <nick@the-wilsons.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Limiting an account to FTP only Message-ID: <3F01FCF2.8010003@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <006501c34014$e98f6bc0$d86d0251@studygw> References: <006501c34014$e98f6bc0$d86d0251@studygw>
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Nick Wilson wrote: > I am wanting to limit an account to FTP only, for uploading web pages to a > server. I have ftpchroot'ed the account to limit access to the directories > I want to - is there any way of disabling all other access > (SSH/telnet/rlogin/SMTP auth etc). I thought about removing the shell type > from the user account but believe ftpd needs a shell to be specified to > validate the logon. You can use /usr/bin/false or /sbin/nologin as the shell for this FTP user. (Add whichever you use to /etc/shells...) -- -Chuck
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