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From: "Scott Gerhardt" <scott@gerhardt-it.com>
To: "Ceri" <setantae@submonkey.net>
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Subject: RE: Shells Question
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 09:25:18 -0600
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   > On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 02:02:07PM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote:
   > >
   > >    > Oh, okay.  Then I would recommend /usr/ports/sysutils/no-login
   > >    >
   > >    > It's an actualy C program, so it avoids spawning a new shell.
   > >    >
   > >    > On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 01:45:02PM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote:
   > >
   > >
   > > I can still use /nonexistent which spawns nothing?
   >
   > ftpd shouldn't let you in with /nonexistent set as the shell.
   >
   > man ftpd :
   >
   >            4.   The user must have a standard shell returned by
   >                 getusershell(3).
   >
   > Ceri

I just created a user with /nonexistent for a shell and added /nonexistent
to /etc/shells and ftpd works fine.

Give it a try yourself.


	- Scott


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