also sprach Bostjan Muller (on Thu, 13 Sep 2001 02:47:20PM +0200): > 1. I cannot ssh/scp to a remote machine, if the user has an shell > that does not allow interactive login (like if he/she has /bin/false > for the shell), that is ok for ssh, but scp should still work right? > sftp does not work either. Is there a way to make it work, I am > most interested in making scp work?
i doubt this will work since scp /etc/file host:/etc/otherfile is really just ssh host 'cat > /etc/otherfile' < /etc/file - so it is a no-interactive login remotely, which is not granted with /bin/false. sftp also uses a shell - interactively actually. > 2. If the user has something echoed in his/her login scripts like in > ~/.bashrc a line echo "lalala", he/she is able to login via ssh, > but is not able to do scp. The line lalala is displayed, but than > the program stops and the transfer is not made. Is there a way > around this? by the above reasoning, lalala is interpreted as data from the host that's part of the scp operation. martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
