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Re: SFTP only account


On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 10:12:45PM -0400, you [Igor Pechtchanski] wrote:
>
> Instead of setting the shell to /bin/false, set it to a script that checks
> the parameters (e.g., which program is invoked), and quits with a non-zero
> return code if the program is not "sftp", for example.  That same script
> can also do "chroot"  to your FTP directory, so the user can't get out of
> it.  Be sure to set all the relevant shell variables in the script (e.g.,
> PATH, IFS, etc).

There are a couple of such scripts available. Search the openssh mailing
list archive.

rssh is one of them:
http://www.pizzashack.org/rssh

scponly is another:
http://www.sublimation.org/scponly/

There may be others.


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