On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Trevor Astrope wrote:
> > > On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Bug Hunter wrote:
> > > > You can simply add a line in /etc/passwd, with the shell set to
> > > /dev/null,
/bin/true or /usr/bin/passwd would be better as a shell... make
sure to add it to /etc/shells too...
> What if you don't want to allow ftp access as well? If the shell is
In your /etc/ftpaccess set up a "guestgroup". Then by default set all your
POP user's group to that "guestgroup" and their home directory to
"/home/ftp". "man ftpaccess" gives a good example. Then when they try to
ftp into your system, they will be placed into the same old anonymous ftp
directory as "really" anonymous users.
When you have a user that you want to be able to ftp to their home
directory, just change their group to some other group. No hassles, no
problems. Just be careful of umasks and permissions (should be 711 on the
home directory, 755 on the public_html subdirectory, umask should be 022
so that further files are created as rwxr-xr-x).
Hacking on the 'adduser' script will let you do all this with little
problem. The biggest problem is generating an initial password -- I get
tired of generating and typing in initial passwords. A short Python script
could solve that, but I haven't had time to mess with adduser lately. The
next-to-biggest problem is letting people change their password. Setting
their login shell to /usr/bin/passwd solves that to a certain extent, but
some dweebs can't figure out what it means to type in "Old Unix Password"
("I typed in the new password I wanted and it won't take it!"). Sigh. That
happens even if you set your /etc/issue to post complete directions on the
screen -- some people just refuse to read. Oh well. Using libcrypt it
shouldn't be very difficult to make a web front end to change passwords,
but since I'm not in that business I haven't done it.
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