Re: openssh public Key Athentication - with restrickted login shell

[Robin Wood <dninja () gmail com>]

If you can use sftp rather than scp you can set the shell to

/usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server

(choose your location)

and that chroots the sftp to the home directory.

Robin


2009/11/5 Jannis Kafkoulas <jasecml () yahoo com>:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like too use scp to transfer data to a Linux box out of a perl script using public key authentication(with no 
> passphrase:-( ).
> As long as the used userid has a regular account on that server everything works fine.
> But for higher security I'd like the user not to be able to login, so I gave him a "nologin shell" in the /etc/paswd. 
> In this case its also inposible
> to authenticate as before.
> So I thought it should be a working but restricted "login shell", which is sufficient enough for that user complete 
> the authentication and to do its scp file transfer, nothing else.
> Any idea?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Jannis
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