FreeBSD FTP access without SSH access

I ran into this problem on the freebsd server today.  FTP users had FTP and SSH access to my entire system but i only wanted them to have access to their FTP home directory.  Using the following links i was able to solve my problem:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-June/010241.html

http://forums.devshed.com/ftp-help-113/freebsd-ftp-login-w-o-telnet-9574.html

Listed below is how i fixed this issue:

1. Add user names to /etc/ftpchroot. This makes the user accounts unable to navigate outside of their Home directory. # nano /etc/ftpchroot add [username]
2. Add the nologin "shell" to your shell list so that ftpd sees it as a a valid shell. # nano /etc/shells
   add "/sbin/nologin"
   
   Should look something like this:
   
   
   
   

   # $FreeBSD: src/etc/shells,v 1.5 2000/04/27 21:58:46 ache Exp $

   #

   # List of acceptable shells for chpass(1).

   # Ftpd will not allow users to connect who are not using

   # one of these shells.

   
   

   /bin/sh

   /bin/csh

   /bin/tcsh

   /usr/local/bin/bash

   /sbin/nologin

   
   
3. Finally we need to edit the user account to use the nologin shell using the following command:
   
   # pw usermod -n [username] -s /sbin/nologin

Hope you find this helpful