tech question "sftp to ftponly accounts"

[Damien Miller]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Ivan Teliatnikov wrote:

> Sorry guys,
>
> I am not meant to write to this list disturbing developers with a silly
> end user question, but this a matter of huge importance for me.
>
> I am running ssh-server on RedHat 6.1. Before we introduced ssh we had a
> couple of ftponly accounts for people downloading data from our
> university database. It appears that they cannot access ftponly account
> from any windows sftp clients. However it works fine for all normal
> users. May be you can give a hint on this matter.

sftp is a completely different protocol to regular FTP. OpenSSH does not
have all the pieces in place to support chroot ftp only accounts yet
(unless you want to do it youself using a custom shell).

-d

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