ftp only account

hello everyone ! i have a few questions, 1. how do i give users an ftp only account (no telnet, etc). 2. im using default debian install (2.0) , how do i enable anonymous ftp sessions ? thanks a lot Sib - A world of Information. The

shell magic/info

Hello everyone ! I've been dirtying my hands on how interactive shell programs like smailconfig, bindconfig (those who ask the user for a choice and execute something for that choice). They always start with that usual executable magic #!/bin/sh . Does anyone know of any documentation w/s can

ipmasq rules in ip-up.d

hello everyone ! i placed the following ip masquerading rules in my /etc/ip-up.d/masqrules : #! /bin/sh /sbin/ipfwadm -F -p deny /sbin/ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.1.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0 my question is, with those masq rules automatically run everytime my ppp link comes up, do i also have to

non-interactive shell

hi all, i have a few users in my box that i want to give access only to a very limitted number of commands, that is, /usr/bin/pon, /usr/bin/poff and /usr/bin/elm . i don't want to give them a fully interactive shell so i was thinking of writing a script that gets started when they log on and w

punctuation marks ?

hi ! anyway, how does a ` differ from a ' anyway ? ... and what are they called ? sib - A world of Information. The journey begins here. At Home. Internet Cebu's web based mail. http://www.i-mailbox.net

masq server hardware req's

Hi ! I have an old pentium 90 here with 32 mb physical mem on it and I am planning to use it as an IP Masquerading server / DNS caching only server and Mail server with a *.ml.org (as soon as they recover) for our group of 20 users and 9 winblows boxes. I already have this kind of server runni

subnetting/debian router Q's

Hi ! Anyone have any idea how do I configure my debian box as a router for my LAN? Anyway, I'm planning to do this and please let me know if my thinking is wrong. I want to ask my ISP for 32 static IP's (203.176.38.32 - 203.176.38.64). And I'll assign xxx.33 as my Linux's IP and let t

[no subject]

Hi ! Anyone have any idea how do I configure my debian box as a router for my LAN? Anyway, I'm planning to do this and please let me know if my thinking is wrong. I want to ask my ISP for 32 static IP's (203.176.38.32 - 203.176.38.64). And I'll assign xxx.33 as my Linux's IP and let th

set/export TERM=vt100

hi! i once had an ISP where in order to be able to run elm (when telnet`ing to it) you have to invoke _$ set TERM=v100_ , they were running RedHat. on another ISP, in order for you to run pine, you have to invoke _$ export TERM=vt100_ , they ran BSDI. now, on my debian system, (when i teln

tcp wrapper

i was wondering whether there's debian package for tcpwrapper ... can someone please tell me where do i find it ? sib - A world of Information. The journey begins here. At Home. Internet Cebu's web based mail. http://www.i-mailbox.net

system hang on boot

hi all ! I 81Mb of RAM but had no idea that i was using only the 64Mb of it until that post by Mark Phillips. Anyway, i added the 'append' line to my /etc/lilo.conf then run #lilo ... When i tried restarting my box it would completely halt/hang at the part where Linux does partition checks on