On Thu, 17 May 2001, Jesse Adelman wrote:

> Hello, good SSH users and developers. I need to set up SSH such that users
> can scp and sftp but NOT log in to a shell. I've attempted to set a shell as
> /bin/<doesnotexist>, but that breaks SSH generally, including scp and sftp.
> What is the best/preferred method for disabling shell access and allowing
> scp and sftp to work?

I'd make a pseudo-shell program that detects method of invocation and then
permits limited functionality in a chroot() prison. It's be nifty to have
a little custom interface appear for users, and you could log or track
certain stuff. And it'd be secure.

Zak Power ; executive consultant / ZENCOR Technologies International 
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