Subject: Re: wu-ftp2.4 and telnet

From: Ken Lui <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 09:17:12 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 12 Mar 1996 13:22:21 -0700 (PDT) LES MAYEDA TECH 
SUPPORT/ISS X6656 <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Can you explain what this /bin/false shell is and what it is used for?
>Is this what everyone sets as a shell when creating
>secured (requires password) ftp accounts?
>
It is a shell scripts that exit with 1. 

The better way to create ftp only account is to use guest login. Define a class 
in ftpaccess, the account will be chroot to their home directory(just like 
anonymous). Therefore, they can't access the real / or /etc. O'Reilly 's book 
"Managing Intrernet Information Services" has full detail.

Cheers.

Ken Lui
City of Edmonton