ftponly account with other ftp accounts

[rana786]

Hi all,
I have some ftp users with telnet facility in a HP-UX system. Now I need a few ftp-only users in the same system under a specified directory. I created ftp-only user successfully. But the problem is after creation of ftp-only user adding a flag to the ftpd daemon, only ftp-only user can access the system other ftp user can not access to the system.

How can existboth type of users?

[Paul Sperry]

I'd create the users all the same but give the ftp only users no shell access.

[Ivan Ferreira]

What is the flag that you added?. If your ftp server is wu-ftp, use the -a and configure ftpaccess to restrict the account to be chrooted. You can use /usr/bin/false as the shell for the user to avoid interactive access.

[Devesh Pant_1]

Hello rana786
What we do is add the following to the profile say if you want ids abcde and fghij to be ftp only

if [[ `logname` = abcde ]] || [[ `logname` = fghij ]]
then
clear
echo "****************************"
echo "Unauthorized login. Login to id `logname` allowed via ftp or su only."
echo "*****************************"
echo " "
echo "GOODBYE"
echo "*****************************"
kill -9 $$
fi

This should do the trick

thanks
DP

[rana786]

Hi all,

I want to create FTP only users and those ftp only users not to change directories. I have created ftp only users and had included the -a option with the ftpd in the inetd.conf file. After adding -a option ftp only users are able to ftp and for other
the access to ftp is restricted (unable to access). So I have removed the -a option and now the FTP only user can move to other directories other than his home directory. I do not want this. I need to co-exist both normal ftp user and ftp-only user.

Rgds,
Mostafa

[Muthukumar_5]

Try this method:

/etc/inetd.conf
ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/ftpd ftpd -l


vi /etc/passwd
Put this contents,

guest1::100:92:Guest Account:/ftp/:/etc/ftponly

Change guest1 to your account name. Change /ftp to some directory.

vi /etc/shells
/etc/ftponly
/sbin/sh


Try now. It will work.

--
Muthu

[Arunvijai_4]

Hello,

1) Create a new group "ftponly"
2) Create a new account belonging to this group "ftpuser"
3) Give it a NON shell like /usr/bin/false
4) Put the NON shell in /etc/shel
5) Edit /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess following "man ftpaccess" instruction

-Arun

[Darrel Louis]

Hi,

You need to configure your ftpaccess file and in there you can specify the directory and permissions the file should have.

When adding the users specify the directory location were they will put the data e.g:
ftpuser:*:999:999: Ftp users:/data/ftp/load/./:/usr/bin/false

Your inetd.conf should be modified:
Start ftpd with the -a option.
ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/ftpd ftpd -l -a

GoodLuck

Darrel

[rana786]

Its ok.