sftp

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 04:22:34PM -0400, Randy Jonasz wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone could offer me some advice.  When someone logs in
> to a server using sftp, can I have a login script execute?  And another
> script execute when they log out?  I tried editing /etc/bash.bash_logout and
> /etc/bash.bashrc only to discover a sftp connection does not spawn a shell.

sftp runs using a subsystem, not the shell.  This makes it simple to
chroot and such, and works for users without shell access.

I have never checked if you can do anything scripted around sftp.

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Len Sorensen
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