Re: vsftp question

Marcus Merrin wrote: 

> The recent discussion on Apache+ftp+php etc prompted me to ask a
> related question.  I have a similar setup with "student" accounts each
> with a homedir containing a public_html directory.  Each user has a
> valid entry in the passwd file and are each chrooted to their home dir
> by VSFTP.  However, I don't want them to gain terminal access at all.
> Under wu-ftp there was no problem.  You just give them /bin/false or
> /bin/nologin as their login  shell in the passwd file.  However if you
> do this with vsftp, it prevents them from ftp-ing into their home
> also.  How do I grant FTP but not shell access?

vsftpd checks if the users have a valid shell. Those are defined in
/etc/shells. Add "/bin/false" to this list and everything should be
fine. Regards,
Philipp