Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 18:18:12 -0500 From: Steve Tremblett <sjt@cisco.com> To: Steven Lake <raiden@shell.core.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Selectively forbidding login Message-ID: <20020308181812.A8403@sjt-u10.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44L0.0203081657180.5259-100000@shell.core.com>; from raiden@shell.core.com on Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 05:03:47PM -0600 References: <Pine.GSO.4.44L0.0203081657180.5259-100000@shell.core.com>
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I believe a user will be allowed FTP login if their shell is in
/etc/shells. I'm not %100 sure on what nologin does (not on a FreeBSD
box right now), but I'm guessing that if it is a shell that is made up
of something like "int main() { return 0; }" it should be safe to put
in /etc/shells.
+---- Steven Lake wrote:
| 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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