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Date:      Fri, 8 Mar 2002 18:25:42 -0800
From:      "barazani" <bara_zani@yahoo.com>
To:        "Steven Lake" <raiden@shell.core.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Selectively forbidding login
Message-ID:  <028801c1c711$b6a6f110$7b00a8c0@motil>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.44L0.0203081657180.5259-100000@shell.core.com>

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try using proftp
it will allow you to create multiple "anonymous" accounts ,regradless of
wather the user has a local login or not .
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Lake" <raiden@shell.core.com>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 3:03 PM
Subject: Selectively forbidding login


> Ok, I've looked around and tried the suggestion to modify a user's
> login so that it reads /sbin/nologin for the shell to prevent user from
> logging into ssh, but it also blocks them from logging in via FTP and all
> other services as well.
>
> All I want it to do is prevent a user from logging into the server via
> anything but FTP.  I want them to have FTP access and when they login
> they land in their home directory with the path showing in the FTP
> program as "/", but nothing else.  How would I best go about this?
>
> AKA.  When a user does "PWD" all they see is "Current directory is
> /" instead of the full path and when they do a CD.. they can't go any
> higher in the directory structure.  Basically put I'm wanting to set users
> so that they can't see anything on the server except their home directory.
>
> Thanks again!
>
>
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