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Re: proftpd question



On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 06:15:17PM +0200, Alon Altman wrote:
>   I have proftpd installed on my mandrake 7.2 box, and I would like to
> create a user with FTP access only (no shell access), that requires a
> password to login and can access only a chrooted home dir. I perfer that
> this user be an actual user in /etc/passwd, but with no shell (either locked
> out pwd or /dev/false as shell). I need not provide any other FTP users
> access, and can switch to other FTP servers.

If you're setting the user a non loginable shell, just either make sure
it is in /etc/shells or set 'RequireValidShell off' in the config file.

> P.S. Is there a way to have FTP use one-time-password authentication?

That's usually done with a PAM module, and proftpd supports authentication
as a PAM service.

-- 
Best regards,
Ilya Konstantinov

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