Re: SFTP - only

From: Freddy Chavez (freddychavez22@cox.net)
Date: 12/09/02

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    From: "Freddy Chavez" <freddychavez22@cox.net>
To: <secureshell@securityfocus.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 14:46:53 -0500

    I did what you suggest and now I have a "sftp only" user.
    Now, how can I jail that user to only their home directory so he
    cannot be able to "cd /" or something like that.

    Thanks for your help.

    Regards,
    Freddy Chavez.

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Thomas Baumann" <tom@tiri.li>
    To: <jakub.spiewak@citicorp.com>; <secureshell@securityfocus.com>
    Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 4:51 PM
    Subject: Re: SFTP - only

    > Just put in your /etc/passwd as shell /usr/libexec/sftp-server
    >
    > Greeings
    >
    > - thomas
    >
    > Zitat von jakub.spiewak@citicorp.com:
    >
    > > Hello,
    > >
    > > My first mail to such group so please be forbearing
    > >
    > > I would start only sftp service on my server, to forbid shell
    access by
    > > users.
    > > Only FTP access.
    > > Is it possible?
    > > If yes how?
    > >
    > > Regards,
    > > Jakub.
    > >
    > >
    > >
    >
    >
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