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authorhubertf <hubertf@NetBSD.org>1999-08-02 00:44:59 +0000
committerhubertf <hubertf@NetBSD.org>1999-08-02 00:44:59 +0000
commit0baca35ee58a3369867d512920cc3a248265ea7e (patch)
treef08f1ca8a674d63cd685f65d2386eded090e07eb /libexec
parentc71139914fabe289afd4fd6f7aa2ff60cdf56e19 (diff)
Document setup of "ftp-only" non-anonymous accounts.
Suggested by Thilo Manske <Thilo.Manske@HEH.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>, approved by Luke Mewburn <lukem@netbsd.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'libexec')
-rw-r--r--libexec/ftpd/ftpd.815
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libexec/ftpd/ftpd.8 b/libexec/ftpd/ftpd.8
index 13b469ffc55..1e765e46dcc 100644
--- a/libexec/ftpd/ftpd.8
+++ b/libexec/ftpd/ftpd.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: ftpd.8,v 1.40 1999/07/27 15:41:49 itojun Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: ftpd.8,v 1.41 1999/08/02 00:44:59 hubertf Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1985, 1988, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -605,6 +605,19 @@ However, error messages from conversion or
commands won't be returned to the user.
(This is the traditional behaviour.)
.El
+
+To set up "ftp-only" accounts that provide only ftp, but no valid shell
+login, you can copy/link
+.Pa /sbin/nologin
+to
+.Pa /sbin/ftplogin ,
+and enter
+.Pa /sbin/ftplogin
+to
+.Pa /etc/shells
+to allow logging-in via FTP into the accounts, which must have
+.Pa /sbin/ftplogin
+as login shell.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /etc/ftpwelcome -compact
.It Pa /etc/ftpchroot