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Date:      Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:14:35 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Dante Cannarozzi <djc2@cec.wustl.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ftp server
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980218111356.13769B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980217153214.006c43f4@mail.cec.wustl.edu>

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On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Dante Cannarozzi wrote:

> 	I recently setup FreeBSD 2.2.5 on my CTX Cyrix 233 and I love it so far...
> I also setup WU-ftpd... but am having trouble setting up the users. I've
> made a user group called "user" and have a new user called "dave". I'd like
> to have him log into my ftp and "chroot" him... or make him see only "/" as
> his root dir... instead of "/var/ftp" ... I get everything setup right (I
> think) and I don't have him in "ftpusers" ... but when I test the login w/
> the right password it says "user dave denied. bad shell or username in
> /usr/local/etc/ftpusers" He's not in that ftpusers either. His shell is
> nonexistent.. and I saw that pass.wd says that it won't all people in
> unless they have /bin/csh as a shell... but how do I change that... or how
> do I setup the right permissions... thanks in advance

Add /nonexistent to /etc/shells.

Are you basically giving Dave anonymous access? Then why bother with a
username?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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