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Date:      Fri, 21 Feb 2003 06:59:51 +0100
From:      Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ftp users - question
Message-ID:  <20030221055951.GA96171@raggedclown.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030220231312.GA66761@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
References:  <005d01c2d92d$8d70c990$0701a8c0@darryl> <20030220231312.GA66761@grimoire.chen.org.nz>

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On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 12:13:12PM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:15:18PM -0600, Darryl Hoar wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > I have a machine setup running 4.7 - stable.  It is an internal machine.
> > How do I setup a user (so they can upload with ftp) but can't login at
> > the shell ?  Is this possible ?
> 
> Set up the users with a non-existent shell (eg: /nonexistent), and add
> the non-existent shell entry into /etc/shells.

Conventionally such users woud be given a shell of "/sbin/nologin", which
must also be added into the list contained in "/etc/shells".
The program "/sbin/nologin" already exists, so no need to create it.

-- 
Regards
   Cliff Sarginson 
   The Netherlands

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