Can I assume you are running OneFS v7.x?  If you are running v7.x, you will want to look into role-based access.  Specifically for SFTP which as you know is FTP secured via an underlying SSH session, the user therefore needs to be assigned at a minimum the following privilege:  ISI_PRIV_LOGIN_SSH  With OneFS v7.x, privileges are assigned via (system and user-defined) roles.  It should be enough to create a role with just that privilege and add the user (or group) to that role.  RBAC is covered in the Administration Guide for your version of OneFS (search for "Managing roles"):  [URL]
I need to have SFTP and SCP access on our Isilon. I had enabled FTP and am able to connect via SFTP using the admin and root account (sftp admin[NAME]), but I want to have a user who does not have admin or root privileges, but can connect to the Isilon via sftp. I had read somewhere that SFTP access will be enabled for only Unix users (in general, not particularly for Isilon). What I want to know is: 1. Is there a way I can enable SFTP access for our AD users? 2. If no, how do I create a local user with limited privileges which will have SFTP and SCP access?  Till now I have tried creating a local user and adding it to the guest/ftp/ifs group in file provider, but its not working.
SFTP and SCP access on Isilon