Re: vsftp question

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Date: 04/04/05

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    Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 11:19:18 -0500
    To: Marcus Merrin <marcus.merrin@emptyair.com>
    
    

    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?
    >
    >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.


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