Comments on: How to: Configure User Account to Use a Restricted Shell ( rssh )

By: John

John — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:47:22 +0000

Thanks, I was getting the connection closed error and adding the user to rsshusers worked!

/usr/sbin/usermod -a -G rsshusers username

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:45:53 +0000

It means, shell access is not allowed. You can only upload or download files using sftp/scp client.

By: Shells

Shells — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:50:20 +0000

Actually, to clarify: Over ssh, I get an “account restricted by ssh” message, allowed commands: scp sftp. And then a connection closed.

By: Shells

Shells — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:48:36 +0000

If I try to connect over ssh, I get an immediate Connection Closed. On Filezilla, I get exitcode 1. Any ideas?

By: Apu

Apu — Sat, 07 May 2011 14:28:23 +0000

rssh package is available at http://packages.sw.be/rssh/

By: Apu

Apu — Sat, 07 May 2011 14:25:39 +0000

where do i can get the rssh package and what i have to do at /usr/bin/rssh file

By: Esteban du Plantier

Esteban du Plantier — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:34:57 +0000

Nope, you need to add the user account to the rsshusers group :-)
Steve.
ls -la /usr/bin/rssh
-rwxr-x— 1 root rsshusers 22276 Nov 4 16:27 /usr/bin/rssh

By: agrd_sn

agrd_sn — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 07:56:22 +0000

i’ve found it.
i add permission (x) for others to execute /usr/bin/rssh

By: agrd_sn

agrd_sn — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 07:50:58 +0000

i use filezilla and got this error:
Error: Connection closed by server with exitcode 128
Error: Could not connect to server
how to resolv this problem?
thx b4.

cheers,
agrd_sn

By: stan

stan — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:14:19 +0000

Nice tutorial!

I was just happy that I found what I needed, but it seems there’s somethig that I’m missing.

I need user friendly interface to upload/dowload files (for my friends) and rsync (for me :) ). So I uncommented “allowscp”, “allowsftp” and “allowrsync”. I tested ssh, scp and sftp in console and everythig worked as expected, but when I tried to connect with gFTP (I’m using Ubuntu Hardy) and selected SSH2 connection, I was available to browse the direcroties below my user’s home dir. In that case rssh is not really “restricted”. Is this some bug?

gFTP connects to the remote host with “ssh -e none -l myusername 192.168.0.110 -s sftp”. When I type it in the console and enter the password, the cursor blinks on the next row until I press Ctrl+C. In the auth.log says:
Connection from 192.168.0.130 port 36633
Failed none for myusername from 192.168.0.130 port 36633 ssh2
Accepted password for myusername from 192.168.0.130 port 36633 ssh2
pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user myusername by (uid=0)
subsystem request for sftp

I’ll make a post in ubuntuforums.org, but tought it will be usefull for others if we find what’s the reason for this behaviour.

I would preffer using rssh whithout chroot, so please help me solve this issue.

By: Shubhendu

Shubhendu — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:47:49 +0000

I want to transfer file to other machine using
scp or sftp. How can I use the scp or sftp in my
shell script so that the system takes the password for sftp automatically.

By: Pinoy Compuworld

Pinoy Compuworld — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:58:10 +0000

This article is a life saver. I am a freeBSD sysad but was forced to use centos! thanks man! im subscribing to your RSS Feeds!