RE: sftp vs ftp with ssl

[Glenn English <ghe () slsware com>]

On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 16:30, Skibi de LaPies wrote:

> Another one question in this topic  - for sftp services one need a shell
> account with interactive shell. If I don't want to allow users to login but
> I want to use sftp then what should I do?
> (of course i may be wrong, but I haven't found the way to do that)

I may very well be missing something here, but isn't anonymous sftp kind
of an oxymoron? 

The users would have to log in - just like they do with ftp. They're
logged in, but they don't get a shell.

Might it work to create a user 'anonymous' (or sftp) with a no-password
login, then run sshd in a chroot jail, kind of the way anonymous ftp
works?

Or if this is a known group of users, you could distribute the ssh keys.

-- 
Glenn English
ghe () slsware com


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