[olug] sftp-only account

Mr Scsi mrscsi at gmail.com
Thu Sep 13 16:12:22 UTC 2007


We have used 'rssh'. If configured correctly, its like the old FTP jails of
yesteryear.
heres a decent how-to

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_SFTP_Server_(chrooted,_without_shell)



On 9/13/07, thelarsons3 at cox.net <thelarsons3 at cox.net> wrote:
>
> I want to give a user some file space on my machine, but no shell
> access.  I tried creating the user with /sbin/nologin as a shell, but that
> gives an error message when you try to connect.
>
> This seemed like a no-brainer going in, but now I'm not so sure.  Any
> ideas?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
> --
> Tim & Alethea
> _______________________________________________
> OLUG mailing list
> OLUG at olug.org
> http://lists.olug.org/mailman/listinfo/olug
>



More information about the OLUG mailing list