From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 28 14:35:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scrabble.freeuk.net (scrabble.freeuk.net [212.126.144.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2578115047 for ; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 14:35:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@ukug.uk.FreeBSD.org) Received: from [212.126.147.214] (helo=cream.org) by scrabble.freeuk.net with esmtp (Exim 2.11 #1) id 11Kq7M-0002aC-00; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 21:34:32 +0000 Content-Length: 804 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199908272019.PAA15314@db.geocrawler.com> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 22:30:13 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew Boothman To: Guy Phillips Subject: RE: Adduser Warnings Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27-Aug-99 Geocrawler.com wrote: > This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Guy Phillips" > Be sure to reply to that address. > > I am using 3.2 stable. > > I blocked users access to telnet and only allowed ftp access. I did this in > chpass by changing their shell to /bin/ftponly and then placing them in the > ftpchroot file. Of course this shell does not exist. All works well!! None of > the selected users can telnet in and they are locked into their home > directories when using FTP. Surely it makes more sense to set the shell to /sbin/nologin and then the system does understand what program to present users with when they login? --- Andrew Boothman FreeBSD UK User Group http://ukug.uk.FreeBSD.org/~andrew/ http://ukug.uk.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message