Re: wu-ftpd and /etc/passwd

[thomasv () APPLE COM (Thomas Vincent)]

WU-FTPD under Solaris will still allow you to login even if you have noshell
or nologin as the shell. The best noshell.c I have seen comes with the Dan
Farmer and companies Titan distribution at http://www.fish.com .

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Cheers,
Thomas Vincent

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Thomas Vincent    | Apple Computer - IS&T |
thomasv () apple com | http://www.apple.com  |

> If you put /bin/noshell into your /etc/shells, users should be able to
> connect via ftp. The most common option is to use /bin/false or /bin/true
> (depends on your view of life :) as a shell for users that should not be
> able to log in. Make sure /bin/false and /bin/true are binaries; older
> versions (at least under linux) were shell scripts and might open a race
> condition.