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Re: [suse-security] sftp without without a valid shell?
  • From: Boris Lorenz <bolo@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 19:15:47 +0100 (CET)
  • Message-id: <XFMail.011107191547.bolo@xxxxxxx>
Hi,

On 06-Nov-01 Teodor Cimpoesu wrote:
> Hi Andreas!
> On Tue, 06 Nov 2001, Andreas Rittershofer wrote:
>
>> On 6 Nov 01, at 10:39, Thorsten Marquardt wrote:
>>
>> > I like to offer some customers a kind off sftp account but to deny any
>> > login to this accounts. So I thought about having /bin/false as shell in
>> > /etc/passwd but this prevents sftp to. What can I do?
> put /bin/false in /etc/shells and set /bin/false as shell [discl: not tested]

this works with ftp, but not with sftp, which is part of the ssh package.

I've gone thru all the options two years ago... /bin/false, /bin/noshell, my own
(perl-)shells, to no avail. Only ssh-dummy-shell does the trick.

If there's an alternative to it, I would be happy to learn.

> -- teodor

Boris Lorenz <bolo@xxxxxxx>
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