[ale] password file users shell set /bin/null?

[randy at NewRiverplt.com (Randolph C. Karrh)]

Greetings Ale'rs:

Yesterday, I was supporting a client in Surrency,Georgia (where?) who
has been hosting on one our competitors machines in California.
It was a Sun Os webserver with some very interesting settings in their
password file. Single ftp users were set to the following shell.

Example:
plunkett:x:511:511::/home/web/plunkett:/bin/null

It works whening ftping, but no telnet or ssh.

I am bewildered, Please explain?


Randy

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