[Techtalk] Securely transferring files using scripts

[Conor Daly]

On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 01:06:25PM -0700 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
jennyw thought:
> Thanks! This seems to be exactly the thing I was looking for!  I'll also 
> look at /bin/false as Jenn suggested.  What's the diff between setting the 
> shell to that as opposed to /dev/null?

Don't know.  Guessing /bin/false explicitly says "no" while /dev/null says
nothing??  

BTW, under RH (at least) you'll need to add /bin/false to /etc/shells or
the account may not work.  I found I had to do that when I set up an
account for incoming ftp on one of my servers.

Conor
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