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Subject: Re: Allowing only SCP file transfers?
From: Edwin C Holley (glasswalkertheurgeLYCOS.COM)
Date: Wed Aug 09 2000 - 12:14:31 CDT

You might try a batch compiler to further aid in protecting the account. It would be harder to get the password for the account or even know what it is doing that way. 

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On Wed, 9 Aug 2000 11:58:30
 David Knaack wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>I would like to set up a user that is only allowed
>to transfer files using SCP.  I use this user account
>to deliver files from windows BAT files, so the password,
>while accessable only to the windows admins, is in plain
>text in the batch file, so I want to make sure that the
>user has very limited rights, just in case someone does
>gain access to the BAT file and gets the password.
>
>If I specify /bin/false in /etc/passwd for the user,
>scp does not work.
>
>Thanks
>DK
>

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