On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 06:45:49PM -0600, Chad W. Skinner wrote:
| I was reading the ftpd and ftpaccess man pages in which reference is made to
| the shell ftponly which can be used to allow people to ftp into the server,
| but not log into a shell account. My question is do I need to create a
| symbolic link from /bin/ftponly to /dev/null or /bin/false or does the
| reference to /bin/ftponly need only be added to /etc/shells for this to
| function properly.
I'd expect it to be enough to edit /etc/shells. FTP isn't going to
_use_ the shell you name, so it shouldn't care if it actually exists.
Why not just make the shell /bin/false?
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