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Re: more ftp advice

Shane Wegner (shane@cm.nu)
Wed, 23 Aug 2000 16:18:49 -0700

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On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 04:19:22PM -0700, fF3j wrote:
> hi again
>
> first off - much thanks to shane for the restrict-uid trick for creating a
> 'guest user'.
>
> my problem now is that i have a guest user than can still log in using ssh
> and do stuff.... how do i prevent a user from logging in remotely while
> still allowing ftp?

chsh -s /bin/false username

This sets the shell to a do-nothing binary. Then edit /etc/shells and make
sure a line
/bin/false
is there along with the others. If it isn't, wu-ftpd will not allow the
user to login.

Shane

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