I didn't think you needed to have a valid shell to run scp.

sorry

Bill W

On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 09:57, Matt Alexander wrote:
> Uhhh...  but I want them to be able to scp to my box.  If I set their
> shell to /bin/false, they can't scp in.
> 
> 
> On 20 Jun 2002, Bill Warner wrote:
> 
> > Your probably better off just setting there shell to /bin/false in
> > /etc/passwd.
> >
> > If there is every any kind of security hole in scp that someone could
> > exploit they could get in to your box with your current setup.
> 
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