rsync without a shell

[Andrew Mathews]

Net Llama! wrote:
> I'm trying to setup rsync over ssh without giving the user a shell
> account.  Unfortunately, setting the user's shell to /bin/false prevents
> the rsync from running, as it fails with this error:
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far)
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12)
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
> 

/sbin/nologin?

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