Re: blocking ssh shell but allowing sftp

From: Bev A. Kupf (bevakupf_at_myhome.net)
Date: 02/11/04 

Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:26:18 GMT

On 11 Feb 2004 06:35:11 -0800,
    Rob Baxter (rbaxter@cyence.com) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to be able to create a user that is allowed to login and
> upload files over ssh but is NOT allowed to login over ssh into a unix
> shell - is that possible?

Yes. Just set the shell to be a dummy shell. In fact sshd from
ssh.com comes with "ssh-dummy-shell" for such a purpose. 

-- 
Bev A. Kupf
"The lyfe so short, the craft so long to lerne" -- Chaucer
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