Hi Marshall

You can use scponly http://www.sublimation.org/scponly/

HTH

Marco Correnti
ESACERT

"McDougall, Marshall (FSH)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/12/2005 
15:05:08:

> I apologize if this is OT. 
> 
> I have a developer who needs access to
> /u/l/a/htdocs/his_project_documentation.  I don't want to give him a
> shell account because he only needs to dump some online manuals in this
> directory. I also don't want him to be able to navigate the file system.
> 
> From what I have seen, If I create a user with no shell account, sftp
> will not work.  It fails with:
> 
> Warning: ssh_packet_wrapper_input: invalid packet received: len
> 1416128887 closing the offending input channel.
> 
> If I create a user with the home drive pointing to
> /u/l/a/htdocs/his_project_documentation, all of the dot files get dumped
> there and they can still navigate the filesystem.
> 
> I have installed rssh from pizzashack.org and have limited them to just
> SFTP, but again they can still navigate the filesystem.  If I understand
> the CHROOT jail process properly, I would need to copy various system
> binaries to the chrooted area and I don't want to do that.
> 
> So my burning question is:  How do I give this user sftp access only to
> a very limited area of my system?  Any assistance appreciated.
> 
> Regards, Marshall

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