You may be better off using sftp and ssh v2 protocol. I routinely build ftp only accounts by carefully setting permissions (to stop users from by-passing things via .ssh/) and setting the user's shell to the sftp-server (OpenSSH in my case).
- Ben On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Timothy Reaves wrote: > I looked over the archives, and saw a couple of threads with a similar > theme, but none fit my needs. I also want to allow scp'ing to my server > without login. The one script that a helpful user posted won't work for > me, as the scp'ing is not done from the command line, but via another > program (using the protocol programatically, not shelling to use the > actual scp command). > > When I specify /bin/false - or /bin/true - as the shell, scp fails. So > that doesn't work. When I specify /bin/bash, my app works. I thought > perhaps this was because sshd was checking to see if the user could log > in, and if not, wouldn't allow file transfer either. I could be wrong. > > Any ideas? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
