On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Kelly Corbin wrote:
> Is it possible to do authentication by some other means other than
> /etc/passwd or system login? I know this sounds weird, but I want to
> allow various logins in ssh, but not give them regular system access.
yes. you can use host-based or key-based authentication. i've never heard
of anyone using a different password file or NCSA or anything like that
without hackage.
> SSH2 makes it possible to run FTP over SSH for secure FTP connections,
> but now that that security hole has been eliminated (clear text
> passwords) in my system I want to make it even more secure. ProFTPD
if you're talking about sftp, then, no, it doesn't. i assume you're
actually talking about tunnelled ftp?
> This way I could chroot a user to a particular directory in FTP, but
> they wouldn't have a normal system login so they couldn't ssh in like a
> normal system user.
you can chroot users w/ssh. check the included docs.
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