Re: [techtalk] ftp only shell for users...

Alain Toussaint wrote: > > > Shellscript would work too. Hm. How about 'cp /bin/false /bin/fakeshell'? > > well,i'm not sure you understood the problem,you see,there's some users who > want to be able to ftp to the box for uploading purpose (they upload their > webpages) > do you know of a she

Re: [techtalk] ftp only shell for users...

Couldn't you use hosts.deny to deny all telnet/ssh/etc access to the machine, then explicitely allow yourself or anyone else you'd like to have it through hosts.allow? If no one is to get shell access on that machine, you could simply not load the telnet daemon if you have ready access to the ma

Re: [techtalk] ftp only shell for users...

> Shellscript would work too. Hm. How about 'cp /bin/false /bin/fakeshell'? well,i'm not sure you understood the problem,you see,there's some users who want to be able to ftp to the box for uploading purpose (they upload their webpages),for them,we need to enable a real shell (/bin/bash in this c

Re: [techtalk] ftp only shell for users...

Alain Toussaint wrote: > > > /bin/false works well. It's the default solution that I know of. > > problem is that wu-ftpd (what's currently in the server) doesn't allow ftp for > user with a /bin/false shell... > ummm...i can't consider this solution since i don't know how to build such > app

Re: [techtalk] ftp only shell for users...

> /bin/false works well. It's the default solution that I know of. problem is that wu-ftpd (what's currently in the server) doesn't allow ftp for user with a /bin/false shell... > If you really want to do it some other way, you might try writing a > script or program to act as their shell - but

Re: [techtalk] Users and everything?

Excerpts from linuxchix: 26-Nov-99 [techtalk] Users and everyt.. by [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'm currently logging in as root, but I've been told 9 times that > that's a bad idea. So how can I move all mail email settings, > KDE desktop settings and so on to my recently added user (myself)? > Thanks i

Re: [techtalk] Users and everything?

Sunnanvind wrote: > > I'm currently logging in as root, but I've been told 9 times that that's a bad > idea. So how can I move all mail email settings, KDE desktop settings and so on > to my recently added user (myself)? > Thanks in advance, Sunnan. > > -- > http://home.swipnet.se/sunnanvind > H

Re: [techtalk] ftp only shell for users...

Alain Toussaint wrote: > > Hello, > we will be changing the ftp server at ftp.cyber-horizons.com to proftpd > (latest stable version) and i would like to know if it's possible to have a > shell which is restricted to ftp only (presently,every users not having his > personnal page get /bin

[techtalk] ftp only shell for users...

Hello, we will be changing the ftp server at ftp.cyber-horizons.com to proftpd (latest stable version) and i would like to know if it's possible to have a shell which is restricted to ftp only (presently,every users not having his personnal page get /bin/false for shell) ?? Thanks in adva

[techtalk] Users and everything?

I'm currently logging in as root, but I've been told 9 times that that's a bad idea. So how can I move all mail email settings, KDE desktop settings and so on to my recently added user (myself)? Thanks in advance, Sunnan. -- http://home.swipnet.se/sunnanvind Hjärtan och blomster etc etc

Re: [techtalk] Rtf-files?

Speaking of which, I want to do rtf->(some relatively standard graphics format like jpg or png) in batch on unix. Any ideas? (->postscript is fine as well, since I can use imagemagick convert for ps->(* graphics format). [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] KDE and users and themes, oh?

> 1) I seem to have too old a version of KDE (which is what I installed) to use > the themes at http://kde.themes.org . How can I find out which version I'm > using? Control Panel used to tell things like thatI guess jane > Best wishes, > Sunnanvind [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:/

[techtalk] KDE and users and themes, oh?

Dear all, after struggling all summer with only one thing: getting X to work, it only took one day since I joined this list. After I got X working, I tried to get the modem to work. Actually, that was super-easy (my old noisy box. My pcmcia-modem doesn't even work under windows yet). So now I'm ty

Re: [techtalk] Rtf-files?

> Hi, Hello > Does anybody know of a smallish editor that can read > rtf-files? I don't mean a full fledged office app, > I've already got StarOffice installed:) have a look at ,they have a good word processor which is gpl`ed and though it`s beta,it work very fine. A

Re: [techtalk] ATI Rage LT Pro

Yaaah! first time I'm able to actually help >on a Linux listserve and not just lurk. Thank you so very, very much! I've tried to get X work since the beginning of the summer. This (solution 1) worked, but the "-"'s had all been changed to "^M"'s in the new config file. That was easy to fix, t

Re: [techtalk] ATI Rage LT Pro

Sunnanvind wrote: > > Dear all, > Does anyone know how to configure X for this card, ATI Rage LT Pro? I'm > really messed up and I don't know next to nothing about linux. My screen > can do 1024x768 with 16 bpp and 60hz under windows, it's a TFT screen of > unknown brand (and no markings). > I am