allow SFTP FTP but not SSH. Can ??

[M E Fieu]

> # grep bob /etc/passwd
> 
> bob:x:500:500:Bob Wilkins:/home/bob:/bin/false
> 
> The /bin/false at the end is what does it.
> 

No.. I tried this, but after that the FTP for this
account does work anymore.

ftp://bob:bobpassword@ftpserver

Are you sure this is the way??



--- Richard Crawford <rscrawford at mossroot.com> wrote:

> On Monday 02 May 2005 02:01, M E Fieu wrote:
> > Hi.. I just create a linux account e.g account1  
> > After creating this account, people can ftp , ssh
> and
> > sftp in to the server using this account. But is
> there
> > a way to restrict people from SSH using this
> account
> > but still allowing ftp and sftp?? (without doing
> > anything on the firewall?
> 
> Disallow a shell to the user by modifying
> /etc/passwd.  For example, if you 
> want user Bob to be able to SFTP files to the system
> but not have shell 
> access, modify his entry in /etc/passwd to look like
> this:
> 
> # grep bob /etc/passwd
> 
> bob:x:500:500:Bob Wilkins:/home/bob:/bin/false
> 
> The /bin/false at the end is what does it.
> 
> -- 
> Richard S. Crawford
> http://www.mossroot.com
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