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On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 10:59 -0500, Eric McCoy wrote:
> Grant Peel wrote:
> > Is there a quick - secure way to allow the sshd sFTP subsystem to allows 
> > sftp connections without allowing shell accounts?
> 
> Create the account and set its shell to /sbin/nologin.  You can safely 
> add that to /etc/shells: it does its name and just prints a terse 
> message before booting the user if he tries to connect via vanilla SSH.

Hmmm... I tried that myself before and it didn't work. I get:

Received message too long 1416128883

from sftp if I try to log in to an account with /sbin/nologin as the
shell. That's why I suggested rssh to the OP.

Peter.