[olug] sftp-only account

Tim & Alethea Larson thelarsons3 at cox.net
Fri Sep 14 11:53:27 UTC 2007


Mr Scsi wrote:
> 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)

This worked like a charm.  Simple/fast to install.  Reading doco to make 
sure I understood the issues took longer than anything else.  The one 
thing the doco doesn't mention was adding rssh to /etc/shells, but since 
it _is_ a login shell that seems pretty obvious.

Tim
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Tim & Alethea
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