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Re: ftp bombs with shell other than c*sh

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From: Gordon C. Galligher
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 1989 22:39
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In article <1090@brazos.Rice.edu> jes@mbio.med.upenn.edu (Joe Smith) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 106, message 12 of 15
>
>Does ftp reject logins when the user's login shell isn't csh or sh?  Can
>other shells be certified as acceptable for ftp?
>
>We're experiencing the problem with (GNU) bash as the login shell on a
>3/140 running SunOS 4.0.
>

Joe,

Be sure to include the line "/bin/bash" (or whatever your shells are) in
the file /etc/shells.  The format is one shell per line, full path name.
It is used by chsh (passwd -s) and ftpd to make sure that you want to give
yourself/log into a valid shell.

		-- Gordon.

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