ftp won't allow users who run bash as their login shells?

[Neil Rickert]

In article <TIM.91Feb8154851 at tompkins.cs.columbia.edu> tim at cs.columbia.edu (Timothy Jones) writes:
>Since ftp usually does a chroot() to someplace like /usr/ftp, and the password
>file it uses is in /usr/ftp/etc, perhaps editing (or creating)
>/usr/ftp/etc/shells is the answer...

 ftp only does a chroot() for anonymous ftp.

 ftp only validates the shell when not anonymous ftp.  Or if it does validate
it for anonymous ftp, it is the shell of user 'ftp', to which nobody should
login, and not the shell of the user who is logging in anonymously.


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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert at cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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