What is rssh?
See the rssh homepage. Q: Why did you write this software? A: Mainly, because the question of how to restrict access to scp or sftp only kept coming up on a few different mailing lists I was on at the time… Several people made some suggestions (like using a shell script as the user’s shell) which sort of work, but aren’t terribly secure or reliable. The commercial SSH product has a program to do this, but OpenSSH does not. Joe Boyle has a similar program called scponly, which at the time I looked at it had some security problems, though they have since been fixed… It does currently have some functionality that rssh does not (namely it works with WinSCP; see below), and some that it never will have (more on that in a moment). Obviously I prefer the way I’ve implemented my program, or else I wouldn’t have written it. =8^) I did not write this program for my own use; I do not use it today, nor have I ever (though obviously I would if the occasion arose). At the time, I was bored, and
