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/false for shell) ??
>
> Thanks in advance.
/bin/false works well. It's the default solution that I know of.
If you really want to do it some other way, you might try writing a
script or program to act as their shell - but DO try to think of every
way someone might call up a shell within the script, and trap for them!
Jenn V.
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