How about setting their login script to log them out, and making sure they
don't have write permission to it.
David.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ulysees [mailto:Ulysees at ulysees.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 3:21 PM
To: Hunt, Bryan; ilug at linux.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG] SCP
Not so simple I'm afraid.
if the shell is set to /bin/false, it just closes the connection without
transferring anything
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hunt, Bryan" <B.Hunt at emuse-tech.com>
To: "'Ulysees'" <Ulysees at ulysees.com>; <ilug at linux.ie>
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 3:08 PM
Subject: RE: [ILUG] SCP
>> is it possible to set their login shell to false in the password file
> ? would that work ?
>> --B
>>> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ulysees [mailto:Ulysees at ulysees.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 3:02 PM
> To: ilug at linux.ie> Subject: [ILUG] SCP
>>> Eh how do I set up a user so as they can scp files to and from their
> home dir but not actually log into the box for anything else.
>> Uly
>> yes I am feelin stupid today
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