On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:42:34PM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:34:52PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > But there are programs that don't use su -s. E.g., custom logins > > (non-anonymous) from wu-ftpd will fail if the login shell is set to > > /bin/false. > > You can add /bin/false to /etc/shells to fix that, but actually it is a > feature to prevent exactly this. login with system user accounts. [snip]
No wonder... the problem was, I was trying to setup a chroot user *purely* for FTP purposes (i.e., no login from localhost). I created the user and set the shell to /bin/false, but obviously that prevented ftpd from logging in. :-P T -- INTEL = Only half of "intelligence".
