Re: Secure rsync setup

[Frédéric VANNIÈRE <homere@krow.org>]

Hello,

Le 17 déc. 06 à 17:20, Thorsten Schmidt a écrit :

> I'm thinking of using rsync for backup purposes.
> Sadly, the server (alpha) hosting the files I'd like to backup does  
> not allow
> ssh or rsync connections - but I may execute rsync as a cron job or
> cgi-script.

You should look at scponly, it's a shell which only allow scp, sftp  
and rsync in
a very restricted chroot.
It works well, I'm using it for the backup of more 100 servers and  
workstations.

Regards,

Frédéric.

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Frédéric VANNIÈRE
frederic@vanniere.fr