OT: Client-based CMS

[A. Khattri]

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Jack Berger wrote:

> Yes, in fact I'm having a somewhat heated debate w/our security
> "experts" over this right now. We currently have our ftp accounts set up
> w/no shell, which limits what they can do quite well. Our security folks
> want to enforce secure ftp which requires a shell account to work. There
> is nothing sensitive about the data, and I would prefer that people have
> the limited access provided by no shell. Someone snooping the data is
> not a big concern.

Its possible to provide sftp without requiring a real shell. I have a web
server here at work that provides scp/sftp/rsync access (as well as FTP)
but without giving anyone a real shell.


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