Subject: [980] [968] Re: [962] RE: [959] setting up guestgroup (fwd)

From: [email-masked] (Terry McGonigal)
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 08:48:57 -0500

Hi Folks...

Forwarded message:
> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 15:11:35 -0700 (MST)
> From: Mark Bieniulis <[email-masked]>
> Subject: [968] Re: [962] RE: [959] setting up guestgroup
> To: Patrick Salsbury <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
> 
> On Wed, 21 Dec 1994, Patrick Salsbury wrote:
> 
> > ->what am i doing wrong? and is there supposed to be a shell program
> > -> called "ftponly"? or is that any dummy argument?
> > 
> > -From: [email-masked]
> > -
> > -My attempts at this failed because '/etc/ftponly' did not pass the shell
> > -check so I simply put in a valid shell and things worked.
[ . . . ]
> > 	I use /bin/false as the shell for my guest FTP account. It allows them
> > to FTP in, but any login attempts are immediately disconnected.
> > 
> > Pat
> > 
> i can get it to work with /bin/sh but anything else i get user access 
> denied.

Add /etc/ftponly (or /bin/false) to (on SunOS at least, /etc/shells).
I've noticed that this may or may not  exist to start with, so you
may need to create it (see the man page for getusershell(3) and be sure to
include the standard shells [csh, sh] as well or other things will
start to go wrong!).  There's also some discussion about this in the
wu-ftpd man page (page 3 or so "FTPD authenticates users according to
four rules...")

Hope this helps,

Cheers,
-- 
Terry McGonigal    Gallium Software       [email-masked]
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