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Date:      Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:16:58 +0100
From:      Ashley Moran <work@ashleymoran.me.uk>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, corwin@aeternal.net
Subject:   Re: Restricted SFTP access to server for one user
Message-ID:  <200603281216.58772.work@ashleymoran.me.uk>
In-Reply-To: <44290396.3010607@aeternal.net>
References:  <200603281030.53485.work@ashleymoran.me.uk> <44290396.3010607@aeternal.net>

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On Tuesday 28 March 2006 10:36, Martin Hudec wrote:
> Hello Ashley,
>
> Ashley Moran wrote:
> > I don't want to install an FTP program, and we
> > don't use password authentication for SSH, so I'm going to tell him to
> > create a key pair and send us his public key.
>
> Maybe for the client, it would be better to use also password based
> authentication, ask him - he is the client and he should define what he
> wants.

Hi Martin,

We shouldn't really be hosting his site (it turned out his ISP doesn't offer 
PHP), and I don't think he's paying anything for this, so he gets what we 
give :D

> > I can remove his login shell, but how do I restrict him to only view his
> > home directory over SFTP?
>
> I think that shells/scponly should have chroot ability for their users.

I'm looking at shells/rssh, which appears to be the most popular way to give 
restricted sftp access.  But I'm not having much luck with the chroot.  I 
might try scponly if I don't get anywhere.

Ashley



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