On Thursday 07 August 2003 19:20, chris Verhagen wrote: > A week ago I started a webhosting service for subdomains at > http://crystal-ninja.cjb.net . Now, ofcourse, people need to ftp into their > public_html directory in their home dirs. I'm using proFTPd for that. > But now for the problem: I just got the idea to make a funny mail service. > People should be able to just SSH into my server and instead of a shell, > /bin/mail is loaded and they can do their thing. > I've encountered problems with that... when experimenting i noticed it > worked fine to just change /bin/bash in the passwd file to /bin/mail, but > when i do this, people cant log into the FTP server anymore... > Is there an easy solution for this problem? Remember, i only want them to > be able to use /bin/mail! No shell!
Since you're using proftpd, just add the statement RequireValidShell off And it should work. Jan --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
