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allowing scp but not ssh



I had to do this on a temporary basis and what I used was a program called
scponly. 

*Googles* 

http://www.sublimation.org/scponly/

For what I did it worked well, but I did not use it in a production
environment nor for many users. YMMV

					~Ben

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On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Struts User wrote:

> How do I configure my Redhat 7.3 box so that users can scp files but not 
> ssh into their accounts? I tried setting their shell field in 
> /etc/passwd to /bin/false or /sbin/nologin but both approaches also 
> denied scp access.
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