Re: vsftp question

Marcus Merrin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.linux
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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Many thanks to all who responded with help. I now have it well sorted,
with the check_shells=NO, and disallowing ssh to daemon accounts.
Marcus
> --- Marcus Merrin <[email protected]> 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?
>
> Marcus
>
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