Yenya's World

Sat, 04 Feb 2006

SCP only

Everybody uses SSH for secure remote logins and file transfers. The problem is that SSH sometimes allows too much. It would be nice to have a "scp-only" accounts, which could transfer files, but not run remote processes, forward ports, and so on.

I have recently found that there is a nice and clean solution to these problems: scponly is a program which can be used as the login shell for "file-transfer-only" accounts. It is also compatible with many other means of transfering files over SSH, such as rsync+ssh, Subversion over SSH, and so on.

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