Re: restricted ftp-only accounts on Solaris 7?

["Michael G. Noble" <mnoble@lsil.com>]

wu-ftpd will allow for passwd protected directories and for anonymous as well.
I have been using it for several years now and it works great.
I do not know the address off the top of my head but it is at the 
University of Washington.

Mike

>From: John LLOYD <jal@mda.ca>
>To: sage-members@usenix.org
>Subject: restricted ftp-only accounts on Solaris 7?
>Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 10:25:58 -0800
>
>How can I create or arrange for accounts allowing only ftp access to a
>certain set of directories?  Note that anonymous is insufficient; we want
>password authentication to be used, but we want the other features of
>"anonymous ftp" like chrooted directory, short list of authorized users
>independant of /etc/passwd, logging too.
>
>Solaris 7 man ftpd shows a script to set this up (using native ftpd) but it
>seems to allow only for anonymous ftp.
>
>
>Choices so far:  
>
>a) shell command that does a logout (ensures only ftp access, but leaves the
>user free to cd all over)
>b) fiddle with the Solaris script to see if anonymous can be turned off
>c) some sort of front end to the anonymous ftp to check a password 
>
>
>And, did I mention I need this working by Friday?
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Cheers
>
>John

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