openssh unix dev - Feb 2001 - tech question "sftp to ftponly accounts"

Sorry guys,

I am not meant to write to this list disturbing developers with a silly
end user question, but this a matter of huge importance for me.

I am running ssh-server on RedHat 6.1. Before we introduced ssh we had a
couple of ftponly accounts for people downloading data from our
university database. It appears that they cannot access ftponly account
from any windows sftp clients. However it works fine for all normal
users. May be you can give a hint on this matter.

Many many thanks,

Ivan.

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Ivan Teliatnikov wrote:
> Sorry guys,
>
> I am not meant to write to this list disturbing developers with a silly
> end user question, but this a matter of huge importance for me.
>
> I am running ssh-server on RedHat 6.1. Before we introduced ssh we had a
> couple of ftponly accounts for people downloading data from our
> university database. It appears that they cannot access ftponly account
> from any windows sftp clients. However it works fine for all normal
> users. May be you can give a hint on this matter.
sftp is a completely different protocol to regular FTP. OpenSSH does not
have all the pieces in place to support chroot ftp only accounts yet
(unless you want to do it youself using a custom shell).

-d

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