[COLUG] Restricted Shells

[Brian Miller]

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?
> 
I haven't really worked with it, but rbash is a fairly restricted shell. 
  Once in it, you can only run programs that are in your path, and you 
can't even do a "cd" to get to another directory.  "man rbash" gives you 
all of the restrictions.