[SOLVED] User requires SSH access to connect to FTP, why?
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I have a CentOS dedicated server running ProFTP. I have created user accounts which are meant for FTP access only but the users cannot connect to the FTP unless their shell access is /bin/bash
Here is an example line that is outputted when I use this command:
This user can access the FTP fine, but he can also access SSH which I don't want to allow him to do. If I set his shell access to /bin/false then he can't connect to the FTP.
What can I use in instead of /bin/bash to allow FTP but don't allow SSH?
Not sure why that would be, FTP users shouldn't need a valid shell. What error message do you get on the client, and what do the server logs say when the person tries to login?
Alternately, you could just block the FTP users from SSH in the sshd configuration file with "DenyUsers", or better yet, just whitelist the people you actually need to have remote shell access and block everyone else by default with "AllowUsers".
However /usr/bin/false needs to be added to /etc/shells to make it a valid login shell. Without this when you try to ftp as a user that has a shell of /usr/bin/false you’ll get a “530 Login incorrect. Login failed.” regardless of whether you get the password right or not.
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