Re: vsftp question

From: Marcus Merrin (marcus.merrin_at_emptyair.com)
Date: 04/07/05

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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 <marcus.merrin@emptyair.com> 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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