Summary expanded: FTP only access

G'morning.

I had a few more replies to my question (thanks to all who replied) and a
few people asking for more details to the quick summary I posted yesterday.
Since I was not able to find a good summary in the archives myself before
asking my question, I shall now post a better one than what I did yesterday.

The clearest of the solutions I received was from Sean Berry, so I shall
quote from his email in my reply.

o  Create a link to /bin/false.
	In -s /bin/false /bin/ftponly
o  Add /bin/ftponly to /etc/shells.
	echo /bin/ftponly >> /etc/shells

(Sean recommends that we do not use /bin/false in /etc/shells directly,
since /bin/false is also used to lock out accounts.  Hence the symbolic
link.  You can pick a different name, I used /bin/ftponly in this example
since this name sounds obvious.)

o  Create a user account, changing the shell to be /bin/ftponly.
	passwd -e /bin/ftponly <user_account>


>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	John Tan  
> Sent:	Wednesday, November 07, 2001 11:36 AM
> To:	'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org'
> Subject:	Summary: FTP only access
> 
> 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.
>