Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 17:06:22 -0800 From: "Marc Wandschneider" <marcw@lanfear.com> To: "Matt Gostick" <matt@crazylogic.net> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: allow only ftp for some accounts Message-ID: <AKEALEPEFAKLKAPCDLILKEJJIKAA.marcw@lanfear.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002031947590.6611-100000@thunk.crazylogic.net>
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this is because /etc/nologin is not in /etc/shells. If a shell is not listed there, ftpd won't let a user log in. I just added it to the valid list of shells. doesn't seem like a security risk doing so. marc. > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Gostick [mailto:matt@crazylogic.net] > Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 4:50 PM > To: Marc Wandschneider > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: RE: allow only ftp for some accounts > > > > On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Marc Wandschneider wrote: > > > > just put /bin/nologin as their shell. give them an account > with passwords > > and their ftp directory as their login dir. you should also put them in > > /etc/ftpchroot to make sure they can't meander around the system. > > > Hmm.... I did try that one. When I put the shell as no login I get an > access denied when trying to ftp as well as telnet. > > Any other suggestions? > > -- > Matt Gostick <matt@crazylogic.net> > http://www.crazylogic.net/~matt > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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