topic Re: USER FOR FTP ONLY in Operating System - HP-UX

USER FOR FTP ONLY

KAMARULZAMAN HJ ALI — Wed, 04 Jul 2001 23:49:53 GMT

How can I create a HP-UX user that allow for FTP access ONLY and deny him to access UNIX prompt (deny login and telnet). Please assist. Regards.

Re: USER FOR FTP ONLY

Michael Tully — Thu, 05 Jul 2001 00:54:08 GMT

Hi,

Check the following link, the information contained here should help you.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x0ea6663ce855d511abcd0090277a778c,00.html

Regards
Michael

Re: USER FOR FTP ONLY

Varghese Mathew — Thu, 05 Jul 2001 02:57:05 GMT

Hi,

You can create a user in the normal way, using sam --> users --> add -->
give the login name --> select the shell as /usr/bin/rsh --- then complete the creation by filling up the rest of the options.

Then edit the .profile of the user's home directory and give an exit command at the end of the file. And ensure that the username is not specified in the file /etc/ftpusers.

That's it , u r done..
Hope this helps..

Cheers !!!
Mathew

Re: USER FOR FTP ONLY

Stefan Schulz — Thu, 05 Jul 2001 05:25:29 GMT

Hello,

just set the login shell of your ftp-user to /usr/bin/false. This User will never be able to login. He will only be allowed to use ftp.

See also man ftpd, which describes this.

Hope this helps

Regards Stefan

Re: USER FOR FTP ONLY

federico_3 — Thu, 05 Jul 2001 05:26:32 GMT

It 's sufficient that in the user's .profile there is exit .

Federico

Re: USER FOR FTP ONLY

Ravi_8 — Thu, 05 Jul 2001 06:39:16 GMT

hi,
make a entry of the user loginid in ftp.allow file and 'exit' command at the end of .profile file of that user. user account has to be created .

Re: USER FOR FTP ONLY

Joseph C. Denman — Thu, 05 Jul 2001 11:51:01 GMT

You can set up an ftpaccess file. As stated above, do not give the user a shell. Use the false shell. You will need to make sure the false shell is in /etc/shells.

man ftpaccess