From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 18 10:13:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wormhole.bluestar.net (wormhole.bluestar.net [208.53.1.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD1B437B422 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 10:13:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from planetwe.com (admin.planetwe.com [64.182.69.146]) by wormhole.bluestar.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e8IHDWN01036 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 12:13:32 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <39C64D3C.F2B37EC2@planetwe.com> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 12:13:32 -0500 From: Drew Sanford X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: restricting login access to ftp only Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I would like to be able to restrict access of some users to ftp only for a certain system, thus allowing them to ftp information to and from the server, but not gain shell access. Each user needs to be able to access information for them, placed into their home directory. I thought at first that using a shell of /sbin/nologin would work, but that denies ftp access as well. Can anyone point me towards some documentation on how to do this? Thanks. -- Drew Sanford Systems Administrator Planetwe.com Email: drew@planetwe.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message