FTP And Not Shell

FTP And Not Shell

[Rejean Proulx]

Hello speakup,
  I have an account that I want to be usable from ftp but not shell.
  Is there a way of disabling shell access?
  
  

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Best regards,
 Rejean                          mailto:rejean@interfree.ca
Skype id: rproulx
msn: rejean@interfree.ca

Re: FTP And Not Shell

[Igor Gueths]

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There are several ways of doing so. One of which I can think of, is to 
change that account's shell to /bin/false in /etc/passwd. The only 
problem with doing this is that some Ftp daemons require that the 
account have a valid shell. 
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 06:58:27PM -0500, Rejean Proulx wrote:
> Hello speakup,
>   I have an account that I want to be usable from ftp but not shell.
>   Is there a way of disabling shell access?
>   
>   
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
>  Rejean                          mailto:rejean@interfree.ca
> Skype id: rproulx
> msn: rejean@interfree.ca
> 
> 
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Re: FTP And Not Shell

[Adam Myrow]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Igor Gueths wrote:

> There are several ways of doing so. One of which I can think of, is to
> change that account's shell to /bin/false in /etc/passwd. The only
> problem with doing this is that some Ftp daemons require that the
> account have a valid shell.

You can put /bin/false in the file /etc/shells, and that will make the FTP 
daemon consider it valid.  The drawback to this is, now a user could 
change their shell to /bin/false, and then they wouldn't be able to log 
in.

Re: FTP And Not Shell

[nick G]

Do do that, you type as rot:
usermod -s /sbin/nologin username
Where username is the acount.
Thanks,
Nick
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rejean Proulx" <rejean@interfree.ca>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 6:58 PM
Subject: FTP And Not Shell


Hello speakup,
  I have an account that I want to be usable from ftp but not shell.
  Is there a way of disabling shell access?
  
  

-- 
Best regards,
 Rejean                          mailto:rejean@interfree.ca
Skype id: rproulx
msn: rejean@interfree.ca


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