Telnet and FTP issues on 5.3
Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
Thu Feb 10 10:42:10 PST 2005
In the last episode (Feb 10), Dixit, Viraj said:
> I have been searching for few days everywhere an answer to this
> question. Is there a way to stop telnet access for a group let's say
> ftponly but allow them to have FTP access in FreeBSD 5.3. I know this
> works in my old system BSD OS 4.3. The commands are like this in
> login.conf file in BSD OS 4.3.
>
> #restrict telnet for ftponly group only
> ftponly:\
> :auth-network=reject:\
> :auth-ftp=passwd:
One way to do this is to set the user's shell to /usr/sbin/nologin and
add /usr/sbin/nologin to the /etc/shells file. They won't be able to
telnet or ssh in, but they will be able to ftp.
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Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
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