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  From: Anthony Symons <ant@sa.pracom.com.au>
  To  : <ahuang@feedroom.com>
  Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 09:47:13 +0930

Re: FTP /noshell setup on REDHAT 7.0/7.1

I belive that the requirement for ftp is that the shell returns 'true'.
So we set the shell to /bin/true which just immediatly returns true and
exits. Thus ftp with no shell.

Ant


> ahuang@feedroom.com wrote:
> 
> Can anyone help me on setting up FTP accounts with /noshell, when I
> try to set the user variable in the /etc/passwd file to /noshell, I
> get a denial when logging into wu-ftp.  I noticed that the default
> setup on REDHAT 7.1 has the ftp account setup to /noshell.  It works
> fine with shell /bin/bash.
> 
> Thanks,
> Allen

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