SFTP to /bin/false account?

Travis Roy travis at scootz.net
Mon Mar 15 14:33:01 EST 2004


Bob Bell wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 12:08:16PM -0500, Travis Roy wrote:
> 
>>>> 'scp' might be a better alternative. i imagine anyone that has an sftp
>>>> client also, or could easily obtain, and scp client.
>>>> oh, and i'm pretty sure you dont need to be able to login to use scp.
>>>
>>>
>>> It would, except that scp doesn't allow you to delete files, rename
>>> them, move them, etc, etc.
>>
>>
>> You can do those things via winscp, there must be a way with command 
>> line scp..
> 
> 
> WinSCP does support SFTP, too, so it could be using SFTP to do those 
> things.
> 

Well it does those on my server, and I don't use SFTP at all.



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