From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 15 10:21:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA06372 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 May 1996 10:21:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA06367; Wed, 15 May 1996 10:21:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA14867; Wed, 15 May 1996 10:24:52 -0700 Message-Id: <199605151724.KAA14867@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: Paul Sondhu cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting up user accounts but with no email access In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 14 May 1996 10:13:00 +1000." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 10:24:52 -0700 From: Doug White Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I am setting up a few user accounts on our WWW server so that users can > FTP to the server to post up their web pages into their relevant > web page directories. > > How can I disable email access for these users. ie. I dont want them > to have an email account, only an account to FTP files to. > > The users cannot telnet into our server since I have not given them > read or execute permission to the default shell ( tcsh ) so they cant > log onto the machine and use pine, elm, etc. As long as they have a valid shell specified in their user record, they should be able to use the FTP login sequence just fine. They type their username instead of 'anonymous' at the ftp login prompt, and their real password as the password prompt. Whether they can run the shell or not is a different matter. :-) Is that somewhat clear? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major