Re: ftp and /bin/false

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Bazooka Joe wrote:
I just migrated from fc4 to the latest cent.

in fc4 i used /bin/false for users that I only wanted ftp access and no shell.

That doesn't work in cent - I have to give them a shell to ftp.

How do I change it so /bin/false can ftp only in cent like it was in fc?

-bazooka

I know this is a cent question but I didn't get any love from that list.

The correct shell to give those users is "/sbin/nologin", not
"/bin/false".  Note also that the shell FTP users are given must be
listed in the "/etc/shells" file or they won't be allowed to log in--
even just for FTP.

On CentOS 5, for example, /etc/shells contains:

	/bin/sh
	/bin/bash
	/sbin/nologin
	/bin/tcsh
	/bin/csh

and the anonymous FTP user has this entry in /etc/passwd:

	ftp:x:14:50:FTP User:/var/ftp:/sbin/nologin

so the anonymous FTP user has "/sbin/nologin" for his shell and that
is also listed in /etc/shells.
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