Re: Allow FTP in, but not shell login

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 10:09:58PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 10:10:09PM +0200, Sami Haahtinen wrote:
> > try falselogin, it acts as shell for the user, (what it really does it shows
> > that the user can't login and dies) thats what i use for mail only accounts.
> > 
> > ofcourse you need to add falselogin to list of valid shells.
> 
> i prefer OpenBSD's nologin, which does the same thing as falselogin
> but with FAR less code.  OpenBSD nologin compiles just fine on linux.  

Maybe this should be a debian package.  Does anyone know if there are any
plans?

Mike