scp not tolerant of extraneous shell messages

[Ben Lindstrom]

On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Markus Friedl wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 08:48:57AM -0700, Dan Kaminsky wrote:
> >    Why should sftp-server have any shell dependancy at all?  I was
> > under the impression the whole point of the subsystem interface was to
> > finally gain independance from the vagaries of the shell.
>
> more people think the shell should always be involved.
>
> otherwise you can still sftp if the shell is set
> to /bin/false for example.
>
>

Only way around it would be trusting /etc/shells

- Ben