On Wednesday 09 January 2002 21:23, Joel Michael wrote: > On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 12:19, Tim Quinlan wrote: > > how about setting the user's shell to /bin/true. this allows ftp, but no > > login shell. so it may work for scp as well. > > This is true, but you can still (probably) use ssh to execute commands, > like /bin/sh, and effectively get a shell.
you may be right, as i've never tried this with scp but what true does (as a shell) is log you out instantly. so, in theory, you couldn't execute a command from ssh because as soon as you authenticate, true would log you out. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]