moin, moin, a few times we've had questions about how to setup ssh to only allow scp. I haven't ever seen an answer on the list that really locked everything down. Maybe this project does. lufthans@Schlepptop:~$ apt-cache search scponly scponly - Restricts the commands available to scp- and sftp-users lufthans@Schlepptop:~$ apt-cache show scponly Package: scponly Priority: optional Section: utils Installed-Size: 132 Maintainer: Thomas Wana Architecture: i386 Version: 3.8-6 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2-1), debconf (>= 0.5), ssh Filename: pool/main/s/scponly/scponly_3.8-6_i386.deb Size: 23462 MD5sum: 623869168cdb08af957cd3ff2eeab5bd Description: Restricts the commands available to scp- and sftp-users "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 mostly trusted suite of ssh applications. ciao, der.hans -- # https://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.AZOTO.org/ # "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and # write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." -- Alvin Toffler