[gentoo-user] Setting up sftp and user permissions

2007-08-24 Thread Mick
Hi All, I have a desktop box which I am starting to use as a LAN server. I created a new user and noticed that: a) The new user is asked to login with passwd as opposed to pubkey. This is surprising as (I thought) that I had set up sshd_config to allow pubkey authentication only - need to

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up sftp and user permissions

2007-08-24 Thread Sean Johnson
a) The new user is asked to login with passwd as opposed to pubkey. This is surprising as (I thought) that I had set up sshd_config to allow pubkey authentication only - need to check this again when I get home. Other than a misconfigured sshd_config could it be anything else that causes

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up sftp and user permissions

2007-08-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: I understand that there are many ways to skin a cat - in this case to contain somewhat what a plain user can and cannot do when they log in via sftp. Some ideas that I have across are to use a limited shell like rssh, use an ssh chroot, modify the umask for user directories. I