Subject: RE: Guestgroups

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 95 08:46:57 PST

The docs do a pretty good job of covering this.  The big trick to not logging in is to put 
a non-existent or bogus shell in /etc/passwd, something like /etc/ftponly (which does not 
exist anywhere).  That file name does have to exist in /etc/shells.

The group assigned in the /etc/passwd file for a guest user must also be given in the 
guestgroup directive in /etc/ftpaccess.  Sounds like from the subject line you've already 
figured out most of this.

Note also the /dir/dir1/./dir2 format in the /etc/passwd line for a guest; this sets where 
the effective top of the guest's tree will be.

Hope this reassures you are on the right track...

Michael

>I have 2 questions:
>
>How do I create users that can only use ftp but can't log in?
>
>Are guest accounts just like the anonymous account except that
>a password is required? 
>
>Thanks for any help you can give me.
>Charles L. Hutson
>
>