On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 11:28:14AM +0200, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > hi guys, > > is there any way how to disable login to a machine with ssh and at the same > time use it as a backup machine using rsync over the same protocol (ssh)? > > i.e. user can run rsync to that machine, but the login is disallowed? i've seen > similar setup (using rsh) in the past but couldn't find out how this is done... > > thank you in advance for your help. > You want something like rssh: Description: Restricted shell allowing only scp, sftp, cvs, rsync and/or rdist rssh is a restricted shell to be used as a substitute of the login shell to allow users to perform only scp/sftp/cvs/rsync,rdist operations. . The security implications are high, so the home directories have to be set following the instructions provided. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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