Thank you, Sean Berry, David Foster and Chris Cariffe. The solution was simple. Have /bin/false noted in /etc/shells. > -----Original Message----- > From: John Tan > Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 11:17 AM > To: 'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org' > Subject: FTP only access > > Hi. > > I'm trying to create a user account, the user to only have ftp access to > my particular box. I remember having read that this is achieved by > setting the user's shell to /bin/false, but this did not work when I tried > it. > > Could somebody please help me get this right? Thanks. >Received on Wed Nov 7 00:36:15 2001
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