Bazooka Joe wrote:
I just migrated from fc4 to the latest cent. in fc4 i used /bin/false for users that I only wanted ftp access and no shell. That doesn't work in cent - I have to give them a shell to ftp. How do I change it so /bin/false can ftp only in cent like it was in fc? -bazooka I know this is a cent question but I didn't get any love from that list.
The correct shell to give those users is "/sbin/nologin", not "/bin/false". Note also that the shell FTP users are given must be listed in the "/etc/shells" file or they won't be allowed to log in-- even just for FTP. On CentOS 5, for example, /etc/shells contains: /bin/sh /bin/bash /sbin/nologin /bin/tcsh /bin/csh and the anonymous FTP user has this entry in /etc/passwd: ftp:x:14:50:FTP User:/var/ftp:/sbin/nologin so the anonymous FTP user has "/sbin/nologin" for his shell and that is also listed in /etc/shells. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer ricks@xxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Never try to outstubborn a cat. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
