Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 17:42:37 -0500 (EST) From: News Subsystem <news@pc-support.wpafb.af.mil> To: Daniel Verhoeven <techno@kick.knooppunt.be> Cc: Root Operator <root@server.wulaw.wustl.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ftp Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951121174106.1106A-100000@pc-support.wpafb.af.mil> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951121185512.23086A-100000@kick.knooppunt.be>
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On Tue, 21 Nov 1995, Daniel Verhoeven wrote: > Dear, > > Did you difine that fake shell in /etc/shells ? You will have to. > > Daniel > > On Mon, 20 Nov 1995, Root Operator wrote: > > > Is there anyway to set up a user for ftp access only. I tried giving Sure > > them /bin/false for a shell, but ftpd would not allow access without a valid shell for them. I don't want the user to have access to a shell, though. > > Any thoughts? (I'm running 2.0.5 with the standard distribution of ftpd). > > This is a "wrong" way to go about doing it --but: put the command "logout" as the fist line in their shell script file (.profile, or .cshrc) It isn't the most secure way to go about doing this but the easiest that I can think of. > > And by the way, is there any halfway easy way to upgrade to 2.1 without > > doing a complete installation on top of the root filesystem? > > --Wash. U. School of Law > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= - Jeffrey D. Dean SrA - - Computer Technician / Programmer - - Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio - - root@jd-unix.wpafb.af.mil - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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