sftp client

[Jos Backus]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 06:01:45PM +0100, Markus Friedl wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 09:02:06AM -0800, Devon Bleak wrote:
> > i personally would like to see the requirement of a valid shell (defined by
> > a shell that you can execute commands with, not an entry in /etc/shells)
> > dropped.  i work for a hosting company, and being able to give a user sftp
> > access while not giving them shell access would be invaluable.  (if i can
> > keep 'em from leaving their home directory, well, even better!)

I agree.

> give them a shell that does chroot and exec of sftp-server

This has the disadvantage that one needs to set up an evironment in which
sftp-server can run chrooted, for each customer.

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