From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 26 9:48:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B218937B401 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 09:48:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tmmc.dyndns.org (12-254-249-71.client.attbi.com [12.254.249.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 43ABF43E6E for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 09:48:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from soren@tmmc.dyndns.org) Received: (qmail 57642 invoked by uid 1001); 26 Oct 2002 16:48:51 -0000 Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 10:48:50 -0600 From: Soren Harward To: Lowell Gilbert Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting permissions for a user Message-ID: <20021026164850.GA57585@tmmc.dyndns.org> References: <44n0p1f9ck.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44n0p1f9ck.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-URL: http://tmmc.dyndns.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat 26 Oct 2002 at 12:33:47, Lowell Gilbert said: > > Thanks for the help. Does this mean I should add /nonexistent to > > /etc/shells, since ftpd will not allow a user to connect who is not using > > a shell in that file? > > Sort of. I'd recommend doing that with a different shell name, not > one already used for other accounts. /usr/bin/false works well as a "shell" in circumstances like this. -- Soren Harward soren@byu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message