SFTP Works with bash but not nologin

Question

All of my sftp accounts had a default shell of /bin/nologin

All of a sudden they are failing with exit code 1. I can change the default shell to /bin/bash and it works fine, but not a good solution.

Any ideas on what I am missing?

Thanks!

Jim

Answer 1

Is there anything in the ~.bashrc of the user you're trying to SFTP with?

This is a common gotcha, as any echo statements break SFTP / rsync, SCP