RE: Adding a user for ftp but without shell access

2001-11-19 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| quickest way is probably change their shell to /dev/null | add /dev/null to /etc/shells(so ftp servers will allow the | user to login) and add the user .. Greetings, I thought that it was more appropriate to use /bin/false. HTH, Brooks

Re: Adding a user for ftp but without shell access

2001-11-18 Thread hanasaki
Hmm what about something using PAM and ldap? Does the Posix schema have a "login enabled"? nate wrote: jennyw said: Is there a way to add a user so that they can get to ftp but that they do not have shell access? Are there any FTP servers that keep their own user lists? I just want a simp

Re: Adding a user for ftp but without shell access

2001-11-18 Thread nate
jennyw said: > Is there a way to add a user so that they can get to ftp but that > they do not have shell access? > > Are there any FTP servers that keep their own user lists? I just > want a simple way to transfer files back and forth without giving > people more access than they need. quickest w