From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 16 09:37:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA09144 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:37:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA09139 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:37:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id QAA21476; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 16:34:41 GMT Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:34:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Michael Richards <026809r@dragon.acadiau.ca> cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail account only, no login In-Reply-To: <199710161350.KAA07037@dragon.acadiau.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Michael Richards wrote: > > If you just mean no shell, just put an invalid shell such as /dev/null, and > > add it to /etc/shells. > > If you do that, won't that allow ftp access to that account? If the invalid shell is added to /etc/shells (see above) ftp access works fine. Not sure if /dev/null will work but /bin/true does. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82