Re: restricting ssh access

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel_at_comcast.net)
Date: 03/23/05 

Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:32:44 -0500

"Chuck" <skilover_nospam@softhome.net> wrote in message
news:Xns96218F3DE3312skiloversofthomenet@213.155.197.138...
> Is there a way to prevent ssh access to a user account while still
> allowing
> sftp or scp file transfers? I don't want the user to be able to get a
> shell
> prompt or execute commands with ssh, but if they log in to the server
> using
> another account, I want them to be able to "su" to the restricted account
> and have full shell access. Is this possible, and if so how?

Not very well. I've been highly recommending the use of WebDAV over HTTPS
for this, instead.

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