> How do I create a FTP only account in my machine? I do not want this > account to be telnettable (ie. a shell account). Iam running wu_ftp on > my linux machine. I also have to do this on a machine running Solaris. > This other machine is running Solaris' built-in ftpd. Would I be able > to achieve the same there? > > Help would be greatly appreciated.
This user should just have /bin/true as a shell. As a joke, I know one ISP that to prevent "telnetting" put to everyone's account a .login file with "logout" line in there :) Everyone just smart enough to ftp a "better" .login gained easy shell access... Alex Y. > > Sudhakar > -- > "An elephant is a mouse running an Operating System." -- Donald Knuth > Sudhakar Chandrasekharan (415) 937-2354 (O) > International Web Engineer Type of Guy (415) 940-1896 (H) > http://home.netscape.com/people/thaths/ _ _( )_ ( (o___ | _ 7 ''' \ (") (O O) / \ \ +---------------oOO--(_)--------------------+ | \ __/ <-- | Alexander Yukhimets [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | ( / +-------------------------oOO---------------+ \ / |__|__| ) /(_ || || | (___) ooO Ooo \___) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
