[ILUG] SCP/SFTP

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Fri Feb 22 14:14:36 GMT 2002


Quoting John Moylan (moylanj at rte.ie):

> Actually this is irrelevant if you are using SFTP which does not even need a 
> shell account, the shell should be set to the SFTP subsystem 
> "/usr/libexec/sftp-server".

scp also doesn't need a shell account. 
http://www.sublimation.org/scponly/

> Yet another reason for ditching FTP.

FTP _also_ doesn't need a shell account.  (Re-read my earlier post, 
on this point.)

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