[SOLVED] sftp login failure

wwipro · 08-07-2013, 05:07 PM

Hello:
$ sftp sftpid@myserver
password: ********
Received message too long 1416128883

The account sftpid's shell is /sbin/nologin. If i change it to other shell, such as /bin/bash, sftp is fine.
How could I keep sftpid's login shell as /sbin/nologin ?
Thanks.
Warren

Kustom42 · 08-07-2013, 05:08 PM

You cant... sftp IS ssh.

http://kb.iu.edu/data/akqg.html

eklavya · 08-08-2013, 01:23 AM

Whar do you exactly want to do,if you do not want to log in just stop the ssh service.

If it is /sbin/nologin , you simply can't login using sftp (ssh).

The entry is in file /etc/passwd

It shows the current shell(status) of user with the username.

wwipro · 08-08-2013, 12:58 PM

Thanks to Kustom42. I changed sftpid's login shell to /bin/bash.

chrism01 · 08-08-2013, 09:15 PM

You can set the sshd_config (server end) to sftponly and match on eg user
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.c...nfig&sektion=5