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Date:      Sat, 23 Sep 1995 06:37:38 -0700
From:      Stephen Melvin <melvin@zytek.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: POP Mailboxes
Message-ID:  <199509231337.GAA11796@syzygy.zytek.com>

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>Don't ever put the shell you give them in /etc/shells, because then they
>will have ftp access to your system. ftpd checks /etc/shells for valid
>shells.  :-)
>
Thanks for the sample shell for non-shell accounts, but ftp access is
exactly the reason that in many cases you *need* to put an entry in
/etc/shells.  You want them to have POP access to their email, and you want
them to be able to update via ftp their WWW files, but you don't want
to give them shell access.  (At least this is the case for one group of
users on a system that I run.)

Stephen Melvin
melvin@zytek.com



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