scponly - limited shell for secure file transfers

March 1st, 2008


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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 privileges. Functionally, it is best described as a wrapper to the tried and true ssh suite of applications.

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