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From: "Haulmark, Chris" <chris@sigd.net>
To: "Josh Paetzel" <josh@tcbug.org>, <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: RE: sftp and shell access
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Someone broke the silence:=20

> I am looking for a way to give a user an sftp account without giving
> them a shell.  So far I've tried setting their shell
> to /sbin/nologin, but when they try to log in via sftp it gives them
> a "message to long" error.=20
>=20
> Any pointers would be appreciated...I've tried the FAQ, handbook and
> google so far.

I have used scponly and rssh for those purposes.

Both of them are in the ports.

Chris