[Techtalk] sharing files - ssh and ftp

[kim dang]

thanks,
I will try this out.
best,
kim


> I have just had a quick play with this, and it seems
> to work well.
> 
> Suppose you want user 'someuser' to only have sftp
> access, but no ordinary 
> shell access.  Then a simple
> 
> # chsh -s /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server someuser
> 
> seems to do the trick.
> 
> You can then use Filezilla on Windows or gFTP on
> Linux for a GUI SFTP client.  
> With gFTP you need to check 'Use SSH2 SFTP subsys'
> under FTP - Options - SSH.
> 
> If the user does try and log in using a normal ssh
> client, they get logged 
> straight into the sftp subsystem, and so they should
> be unable to run any 
> normal shell commands.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rasjid.
> 
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> 
> Rasjid Wilcox
> Canberra, Australia  UTC + 10
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