Greetings; I am sure this has been answered before so I apologize if I am posting again but what I need is pretty straight forward. I need to create sFTP users for one of my sites, where the users have access only to a specific directory with download capabilities. I don't need them to have shell access, only the an sFTP server. How would I go about doing this? Thanks bob
Use Internet Search engines with Code: site:howtoforge.com ispconfig sftp directory I'm not sure about the not shell access, I believe SFTP requires setting up SSH, so that would bring the shell access. But you can just not use shell.
sFTP is SSH, so you have to create a shell user in ISPConfig. You can not create shell users with sFTP stub only in ISPConfig. If you want to have secure file transfers without a shell user, use FTPS instead (FTP over TLS).
thank you Till, i am fine with the shell. is there a way to give every access to the same shared directory for download purposes only?
There is no such option, all shell users of a website have read and write access to the sites files. If you want to allow downloads only, why not create a folder in the web directory and protect it with a password, the download will be secured by ssl when your sites uses ssl.
