[COLUG] Restricted Shells

[Duane]

Richard Holbert wrote:
> Anyone else in COLUG land using restricted shells such as rssh or scponly?
> 
> Our department's been using rssh for a while now, but it is no longer in
> active development and rsync 3.0 seems to break it.
> 
> So, has anyone else evaluated these products, or have a better solution
> for restricted shells that only allow scp, sftp and rsync access?

Why not just use the rsync service?

Instead of ssh you can use stunnel to secure things, including client
certificates for authentication.

That way you don't need to use a shell at all.

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