An FTP alternative ?

Atom Powers atom.powers at gmail.com
Fri May 12 21:09:48 PDT 2006


On 5/12/06, Nick Withers <nick at nickwithers.com> wrote:
> Have you looked at SFTP? It's a "subsystem" that operates over
> an SSH connection. Whilst it requires that a user be able to
> login over SSH to the server, you can use filesystem
> permissions (and indeed other system facilities) to enforce
> things like being able to upload / download on a fairly
> granular (e.g.: directory-level) basis.
>

If you use the scponly shell users can be restricted to only sftp
commands and the chrooted enviroment.

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