12-13-2006
i am talking abit off the top of my head...
but you could set up a .profile that logs the user right out and make the perms on the file so that they can not mod etc. then as long as the account has ftp access i.e. no entery in /etc/ftpusers or what ever you have configured to block ftp access. I did something like this in the past however i was not using ssh or anything at the time. Thus i am not sure it will work in this case. sorry kind of a hoky way of locking down access.
PS i also echoed a smiple message in the .profile saying no access to this sytem...
exit
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