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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