Re: ProFtpd question

2001-06-27 Thread Jean-Marc Boursot
On Wednesday 27 June 2001 19:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > And if I'm not mistaken, if they are somehow now able to execute the > chsh command, then they have a valid shell account they can log in > to. :-( > > While they shouldn't be able to run chsh, or the equivalent, putting > their shell in

strange openssh error

2001-06-27 Thread Luca Gibelli
Recently an uncommon error has begun appearing in the logs of only one of my servers: Jun 27 17:06:23 karma sshd[31816]: Setting tty modes failed: Invalid argument I have no clue about what it could be due to. Any help would be appreciated. -- Luca Gibelli ([EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: ProFtpd question

2001-06-27 Thread rsnyder
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 02:49:20AM +0200, Jean-Marc Boursot wrote: > You create the link ftponly: > ln -s /bin/ftponly /bin/false > > You add /bin/ftponly in /etc/shells. And if I'm not mistaken, if they are somehow now able to execute the chsh command, then they have a valid shell account they

Re: ProFtpd question

2001-06-27 Thread Tim Haynes
Reidar Krogstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And why not /bin/true ? > When I add ftp-only users I set their shell to /bin/true. > That makes them able to log in with ftp without access to a shell. [snip] Personal preference in choosing shells: if they have access to a service on the box, /bin/t

AW: ProFtpd question

2001-06-27 Thread Michael Boehme
Hey, this is what Proftpd-Docs say. requirevalidshell is by default set to on. So proftpd will not allow logins from users whose shell is /bin/false, since this one is not listet in /etc/shells to be a valid shell. Syntax: RequireValidShell on|off Default: on Context: server config, , , Module

Re: ProFtpd question

2001-06-27 Thread Reidar Krogstad
And why not /bin/true ? When I add ftp-only users I set their shell to /bin/true. That makes them able to log in with ftp without access to a shell. At 20:54 26.06.2001 -0700, Brandon High wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:36:27AM +0200, Jean-Marc Boursot wrote: > > > ln -s /bin/ftponly /bin/fal

Re: ProFtpd question

2001-06-27 Thread yoros
Thanks for all your answers. With that I suppose that "proftpd" does not accept users with the "/bin/false" shell, isn that true ? Another question related to this one. Are there any configuration file where we can configure the host access ( wich user is to access to wich service ) ? ( sor

Re: ProFtpd question

2001-06-27 Thread Jean-Marc Boursot
On Wednesday 27 June 2001 19:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > And if I'm not mistaken, if they are somehow now able to execute the > chsh command, then they have a valid shell account they can log in > to. :-( > > While they shouldn't be able to run chsh, or the equivalent, putting > their shell i

Re: How to route

2001-06-27 Thread Marco Tassinari
> > Good idea! But is it a Good Thing? mhhh... yes, it seems! > > Ok, as a definitive solution I'll do it and update to > You definitly don't have to update to iptables and 2.4 kernels > to NAT. Yes, but in the future... > > By the way, I have to patch the kernel 2.2.17 (or 18 or 19) > > to

strange openssh error

2001-06-27 Thread Luca Gibelli
Recently an uncommon error has begun appearing in the logs of only one of my servers: Jun 27 17:06:23 karma sshd[31816]: Setting tty modes failed: Invalid argument I have no clue about what it could be due to. Any help would be appreciated. -- Luca Gibelli ([EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTE

Re: ProFtpd question

2001-06-27 Thread rsnyder
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 02:49:20AM +0200, Jean-Marc Boursot wrote: > You create the link ftponly: > ln -s /bin/ftponly /bin/false > > You add /bin/ftponly in /etc/shells. And if I'm not mistaken, if they are somehow now able to execute the chsh command, then they have a valid shell account they

Re: ProFtpd question

2001-06-27 Thread Tim Haynes
Reidar Krogstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And why not /bin/true ? > When I add ftp-only users I set their shell to /bin/true. > That makes them able to log in with ftp without access to a shell. [snip] Personal preference in choosing shells: if they have access to a service on the box, /bin/

AW: ProFtpd question

2001-06-27 Thread Michael Boehme
Hey, this is what Proftpd-Docs say. requirevalidshell is by default set to on. So proftpd will not allow logins from users whose shell is /bin/false, since this one is not listet in /etc/shells to be a valid shell. Syntax: RequireValidShell on|off Default: on Context: server config, , , Modul

Re: ProFtpd question

2001-06-27 Thread Reidar Krogstad
And why not /bin/true ? When I add ftp-only users I set their shell to /bin/true. That makes them able to log in with ftp without access to a shell. At 20:54 26.06.2001 -0700, Brandon High wrote: >On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:36:27AM +0200, Jean-Marc Boursot wrote: > > > > > ln -s /bin/ftponly /bin

Re: ProFtpd question

2001-06-27 Thread yoros
Thanks for all your answers. With that I suppose that "proftpd" does not accept users with the "/bin/false" shell, isn that true ? Another question related to this one. Are there any configuration file where we can configure the host access ( wich user is to access to wich service ) ? ( so

Re: How to route

2001-06-27 Thread Marco Tassinari
> > Good idea! But is it a Good Thing? mhhh... yes, it seems! > > Ok, as a definitive solution I'll do it and update to > You definitly don't have to update to iptables and 2.4 kernels > to NAT. Yes, but in the future... > > By the way, I have to patch the kernel 2.2.17 (or 18 or 19) > > t

ippl failure and strange echo requests

2001-06-27 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hello I have ippl installed and have started it as 'nohup ippl -n' 8 days ago. It has worked well, but now there are two things I wonder about. - yesterday there were 47 echo requests from 30 different origins within half an hour. This hasn't happened the 8 days before. The only way I can expl

ippl failure and strange echo requests

2001-06-27 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hello I have ippl installed and have started it as 'nohup ippl -n' 8 days ago. It has worked well, but now there are two things I wonder about. - yesterday there were 47 echo requests from 30 different origins within half an hour. This hasn't happened the 8 days before. The only way I can exp

Re: ProFtpd question

2001-06-27 Thread Jean-Marc Boursot
On Wednesday 27 June 2001 05:54, Brandon High wrote: > > Perhaps a silly question, but why not just set the shell to > /bin/false? You can. However, with ftponly, you can have 3 user levels: false -> only mail ftponly -> mail + FTP ??sh -> mail, FTP and shell JM

Re: ProFtpd question

2001-06-27 Thread Jean-Marc Boursot
On Wednesday 27 June 2001 05:54, Brandon High wrote: > > Perhaps a silly question, but why not just set the shell to > /bin/false? You can. However, with ftponly, you can have 3 user levels: false -> only mail ftponly -> mail + FTP ??sh -> mail, FTP and shell JM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: Pam 0.72-26 critically broken

2001-06-27 Thread Mark Robinson
> oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > Hi. I uploaded a version of PAM today that fails to minimally work. > >> > If you install this package, the main PAM module (pam_unix) fails to > >> > load. This means that login, su and other programs that ask for a > >> > password all fail. > >