[plug] re: ftp access

[Richard Henry]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leon Brooks [mailto:leon at brooks.fdns.net] 
> Sent: Sunday, 13 April 2003 10:51 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] re: ftp access
> 
> 
> On Sunday 13 Apr 2003 22:38, Jon Miller wrote:
> > Can anyone shine some light on this?
> 
> Shell (as listed in /etc/password) is valid (as listed in 
> /etc/shells)?

I don't believe ftp connections create a shell, so the shell entry in
/etc/passwd should be irrelevant.  In fact I think setting a shell such as
/bin/false in your passwd file is a quick way of giving a user ftp access
but not shell access to a machine.

Rich.