From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 2 7:25:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from raven.korax.net (raven.korax.net [209.82.39.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AAC914EA6 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 07:25:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ReachMe@Syne-Post.com) Received: from Syne-Post.com (synepost.dialin.korax.net [209.82.39.76]) by raven.korax.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA01299; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 10:24:41 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36DC01D0.33E53499@Syne-Post.com> Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 10:20:48 -0500 From: Phil X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel J. Wharton" Cc: Shawn Ramsey , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disabling Telnet (DING DING DING) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is this method also a secret???? I hope not I would really like to see what the solution is. thanks Phil "Daniel J. Wharton" wrote: > DING DING DING we have a winner. > > Shawn Ramsey had the correct answer. This is how you disable telnet but > allow FTP... THANK YOU!!! > > DAN WHARTON > > ----------------------------------------- > System Administrator > THE BURNIT NETWORK - www.burnit.net > > Director of Network Operations > BIG SECRET - www.bigsecret.org > ----------------------------------------- > > On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Shawn Ramsey wrote: > > > > I was wondering if anyone could tell me how I can prevent users from > > > telneting in without disabling FTP access as well. I want people to be > > > able to FTP in and update their websites, but not be able to TELNET in. > > > > > > I already tried setting their shell to /sbin/nologin, but that disables > > > FTP access as well. Thank you very much in advance for any advice. > > > > Add : > > > > /sbin/nologin > > > > > > to the file /etc/shells > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message