Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!midway!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: ftp won't allow users who run bash as their login shells? Message-ID: <1991Feb9.051340.20220@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 9 Feb 91 05:13:40 GMT References: <5774@auspex.auspex.com> Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 17 In article tim@cs.columbia.edu (Timothy Jones) writes: >Since ftp usually does a chroot() to someplace like /usr/ftp, and the password >file it uses is in /usr/ftp/etc, perhaps editing (or creating) >/usr/ftp/etc/shells is the answer... ftp only does a chroot() for anonymous ftp. ftp only validates the shell when not anonymous ftp. Or if it does validate it for anonymous ftp, it is the shell of user 'ftp', to which nobody should login, and not the shell of the user who is logging in anonymously. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940