[lug] ftp only login

[Deva Samartha]

Just curious - what makes a shell a shell, i. e. what's special about it?
Isn't it just an executable more or less complex, doing it's thing when 
it's run?

How would a demon know that an executable is a shell except looking in some 
conf. file - or is there a special convention marking a program as a shell?

S.

At 01:22 PM 2/16/01 -0700, you wrote:

>I don't think all ftpd's act the same way in this regard.  Some require
>a valid shell in /etc/shells, some don't.
>
>--
>Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com>