no login account for and sftp user

[mrberry]

I am using Solaris 8 with openssh 3.9p1 and openssl 0.9.7d.

I had a user that has the shell of /bin/false to prevent the user loging into the server. This worked OK with ftp; he was able to get in and transfer files using ftp, but not telnet or ssh to the box. There is now a requirement to stop using ftp and use sftp add scp instead. This shell does not allow logins with either sftp or scp.

Is there something that I need to change to allow logins with this no login shell? Or is there some other way that I should be doing this?

Thank you.

 

[sehpur]

Hi mrberry,

Please check do you have any firewall rules set on your server..

all the best...

John

 

[mrberry]

After further research I found that a way to do this is to use a special shell for this purpose. There are few but the one I chose was scponly. If anyone is interested it can be found at

http://sublimation.org/scponly/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

John, thank you for your reply, but this is not a firewall issue.