[svlug] how to allow a user to ftp but not login?

[Ruben I Safir]

Or you can maybe just remove the login program in /etc/passwd

Ruben

J C Lawrence wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2000 00:25:27 -0700
> Marc MERLIN <marc_news at valinux.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 08:24:20PM -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote:
> >> I want to create a user account that can ONLY ftp into my RH6.2
> >> box, but not ssh/telnet or anything else.
> 
> > You can do that with proftpd:
> 
> You can also do it with muddleftpd (which I trust far more than I
> trust proftpd).  In fact there are many FTP daemons you can do this
> easily with, all of which support the same feature:
> 
>   authentication using a defined file set.
> 
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