Re: [webmin-l] ftps backup feature

[Yehuda K. <ye...@ym...>]

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 1:57 AM, Csere Mátyás <cs...@gm...> wrote:

> >> I don't know how hard would it be to implement, but  it would be nice if
> >> virtualmin could do backups to ftps:// locations too, with auth tls/auth
> >> ssl.
> > What's wrong with sftp ?
> Actually nothing, besides my sshd_conf allowedusers directive :)
> Can you recommend a shell for the sftp user? (One with  i could replace
> my existing "ftp chroot in home" setup?)
>
This might answer your question:
http://www.howtoforge.com/restricting-users-to-sftp-plus-setting-up-chrooted-ssh-sftp-debian-squeeze
You are probably interested in step 3.
You should be able to set the user's shell to /bin/false and they will be
able to use the sftp subsystem only.

- Y