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Date:      Thu, 01 Mar 2001 13:45:11 -0800
From:      "Riley J. McIntire" <rjmcintire@earthlink.net>
To:        "Aaron D.Gifford" <agifford@infowest.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: ftp access
Message-ID:  <NCBBLBILEPCHLFJAPIIPIEMEFFAA.rjmcintire@earthlink.net>
In-Reply-To: <01030110014400.06418@jardan.infowest.com>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Aaron D.Gifford
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 9:02 AM
> To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: RE: ftp access

> 
> I would caution folks from putting /sbin/nologin into /etc/shells 
> in order to 
> create FTP-only accounts.  I would instead suggest you create a link to 
> /sbin/nologin and call it something like /sbin/ftponly and put 
> THAT shell in 
> your /etc/shells file and use it as the shell for your FTP-only users.

Would this be a problem?

root@aji# lls /sbin/ftp_only
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  - 48 Mar  1 13:23 /sbin/ftp_only*

root@aji# cat /sbin/ftp_only
echo This account is for ftp only
ftp localhost
root@aji#  grep ftp_only /etc

root@aji# grep ftp /etc/shells
/sbin/ftp_only

Then a telnet would show the motd and:

This account is for ftp only
Connected to localhost.
220 aji.wilshire.net FTP server (Version 6.00LS) ready.
Name (localhost:username):



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