topic Re: FTP Only User Account in Operating System - HP-UX

FTP Only User Account

Scott Frye_1 — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:31:19 GMT

Is it possible to set up a secure user that can only ftp. One that you can not even login a telnet session with?

Can anyone tell me how?

Thanks

Scott

Re: FTP Only User Account

Biswajit Tripathy — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:36:25 GMT

Setup an anonymous ftp account. Use SAM to set
it up. Go to SAM -> Networking and Communications
-> network services -> Anonumous FTP and
enable it.

- Biswajit

Re: FTP Only User Account

Alex Lavrov. — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:36:53 GMT

Create a regular user. but as shell write "/bin/false" and he will not be able to login with telnet/ssh

Re: FTP Only User Account

Jean-Luc Oudart — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 14:09:02 GMT

and don't forget to put the list of valid shells in /etc/shells
man shells

Regards
Jean-Luc

Re: FTP Only User Account

Biswajit Tripathy — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 14:12:47 GMT

Oops.. I don't think you want anon-ftp; so ignore my
last reply. Use Alex's suggestion.

- Biswajit

Re: FTP Only User Account

Dani Seely — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:09:58 GMT

Hey Scott,
Create your user account and assign the user the /sbin/false shell. This will allow the user to ftp in, but not telnet or login directly.

Re: FTP Only User Account

Scott Frye_1 — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:32:35 GMT

I must have something wrong, I keep getting 'user saftp access denied' after I type in the user name but before I'm given the opportunity to enter the password.

Re: FTP Only User Account

Alex Lavrov. — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:41:36 GMT

Hmm, I'm away from any hpux server to try it, but I think you should edit ftpaccess file, try to read man pages

* http://www.rt.com/man/ftpaccess.5.html

Re: FTP Only User Account

Scott Frye_1 — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 10:55:21 GMT

After creating the user and attempting to assign /bin/false to him, I discovered I did not have /etc/shells populated with /bin/false. I actually used /usr/bin/false in my /etc/shells file. then I modified my user's start up program to be /usr/bin/false and it works fine. Thanks for all the input.

Scott

Re: FTP Only User Account

Scott Frye_1 — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 10:55:38 GMT