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Subject: Re: sFTP nologin
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Grant Peel wrote:
> Is there a quick - secure way to allow the sshd sFTP subsystem to allows 
> sftp connections without allowing shell accounts?

Create the account and set its shell to /sbin/nologin.  You can safely 
add that to /etc/shells: it does its name and just prints a terse 
message before booting the user if he tries to connect via vanilla SSH.