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Authored by: a1291762 on Mar 11, '02 04:46:36PM

The "Unix way" would be to set the user's shell to /sbin/nologin. You may need to add that to /etc/shells if your ftpd requires users to have a valid shell.

/sbin/nologin is better than /usr/bin/true and /dev/null because it notifies the user that they can't login by writing a message when they log in.



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