Re: [SLUG] restrict SSH/SCP users to certain directories

From: Doug Koobs (dkoobs@dkoobs.com)
Date: Tue Feb 22 2005 - 08:03:35 EST


Daniel Jarboe said:
> Does the vendor need shell access? I mean, why scp? Is it just
> because the transmission is encrypted, or you want passwordless login,
> or something like that? If that's all you're after, you might want to
> look into pure-ftpd (my very favorite ftpd) which has a very easy
> built-in chroot environment, and supports SSL/TLS.

He only needs the ability to upload, no shell access needed. I wanted to use SCP to
make sure the authentication and data is encrypted. Actually, I guess the only thing
that really needs encryption in this case is the authentication. I'll check out
pure-ftpd, never heard of it.

Doug

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