Re: shell


Subject: Re: shell
From: Cliff Crawford (cjc26@cornell.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 03 2000 - 23:32:42 EDT


* John Arends <john@chicago.avenew.com> menulis:
> Hmm..yeah..how can I disable telnet for most users but allow a select few
> telnet access but allow ftp for all?

Yes, you can change the shell to /bin/false (as suggested before) which
will not allow them to telnet in, yet also add /bin/false to
/etc/shells, which will allow them to ftp in (since ftp just checks that
file to see if it's a valid shell, it doesn't actually try to run it).

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