Bill Jonas on Sat, 12 Oct 2002 12:40:26 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Best FTP?


On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 12:26:43PM -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> (notably lacking in free FTP daemons is its virtual users feature,
> which works *really* well and solves a very much extant problem:
> allowing clients/outside users/whatever ftp access without giving
> them shell accounts),

Out of curiosity, why not simply create the user account and set the
shell to /bin/false or something?  (Besides the fact that that's an ugly
way to do it.)  Or I could be misremembering, and that doesn't really
work for FTP (but does for POP and such); is that it?

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