Re: SSH mail server experiments

[Jan De Luyck <ml () kcore org>]

On Thursday 07 August 2003 19:20, chris Verhagen wrote:
> A week ago I started a webhosting service for subdomains at
> http://crystal-ninja.cjb.net . Now, ofcourse, people need to ftp into their
> public_html directory in their home dirs. I'm using proFTPd for that.
> But now for the problem: I just got the idea to make a funny mail service.
> People should be able to just SSH into my server and instead of a shell,
> /bin/mail is loaded and they can do their thing.
> I've encountered problems with that... when experimenting i noticed it
> worked fine to just change /bin/bash in the passwd file to /bin/mail, but
> when i do this, people cant log into the FTP server anymore...
> Is there an easy solution for this problem? Remember, i only want them to
> be able to use /bin/mail! No shell!

Since you're using proftpd, just add the statement
RequireValidShell         off

And it should work.

Jan


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