ftp and shell access

[Kerry Hoath]

This is a particularly bad idea.
/bin/false is actually part of the GNU shell utilities
and does nothing, silently and returns a non-zero exit code.
It is a utility called from shell scripts so making a shellscript called /bin/false
that generates output will cause various things to fail noisily
and unpredictably.

Regards, Kerry.
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 04:03:31AM -0500, Raul A. Gallegos wrote:
> This is almost correct.  Create a new login shell for example /bin/false  in
> /bin/false put the commands:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> echo "no shell access available."
> logout
> 
> Now add /bin/false to the list of possible shells in /etc/shells and when
> you create the new account give it a shell of /bin/false.
> NOw they can access ftp only but not log into any shell.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Lawlor" <dlawlor at roadrunner.nf.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 12:32 AM
> Subject: Re: ftp and shell access
> 
> 
> > Disregard my last message.  I tried this on my system and it isn't
> > working here at the moment.
> >
> > Doug
> >
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