Sounds like you may want to check out http://www.sublimation.org/scponly/
"scponly" is an alternative 'shell' (of sorts) for system administrators who would like to provide access to remote users to both read and write local files without providing any remote execution priviledges. Functionally, it is best described as a wrapper to the "tried and true" ssh suite of applications. On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 10:04 AM, Johan De Meersman wrote: > Not to be annoying, but I don't think it's ever a good idea to allow > root ssh to any machine :) Setup a low-permissions user, and use that, > or better yet, use something that allows a shell-less user for your > data transfers. Perhaps there's a good reason, but one of the things I > find annoying in ssh, is that scp requires a valid shell for the > destination user - dunno if the same is true for sftp.
