[luau] restricting directory access

[Warren Togami]

----- Original Message -----
From: "MonMotha" <monmotha at indy.rr.com>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 9:13 AM
Subject: Re: [luau] restricting directory access


> HTTP should be faster than SSH because it doesn't have the overhead of
> encryption.  However, if you still want to allow SSH access, you could
> set the user up with no shell (like /bin/false or something, make sure
> it's in /etc/shells though) and then have them only use sftp or scp.
>
> --MonMotha

Have you tried this?  To my knowledge scp and sftp don't work if you set
their shell this way.  It didn't work when I tried it a month or two ago.