Re: tlug: Fine control over ftp

[Scott Perlman <perlman@example.com>]

The most obvious reason is for account disabling. (at least obvious to me)

You disable an account, and the account is disabled, if you changed
shell to /bin/false so the guy couldn't log in, he couldn't ftp in
either.

Its considered a security feature. 

-Scott

Chris Sekiya did state upon Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 03:22:47PM +0900:
> On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Darren Cook wrote:
> 
> > That worked! Why does ftp require a shell to exist, when obviously it is
> > not using it? 
> 
> There was probably a good reason for it, but I've forgotten.  Stephen?
> 
> 
> -- Chris
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