Re: vsftp question

Marcus Merrin wrote:

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>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?
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>Marcus
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Marcus,

I believe that you want to set check_shell to NO. This is defaulted to 
yes in vsftpd.

Tom Walsh
Express Web Systems, Inc.