[Techtalk] Securely transferring files using scripts

[jennyw]

Thanks! This seems to be exactly the thing I was looking for!  I'll also 
look at /bin/false as Jenn suggested.  What's the diff between setting the 
shell to that as opposed to /dev/null?

Jen

On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 08:54:50PM +0100, Conor Daly wrote:
> Quoting Rick Moen:
> > Not if the SSH key is locked down to perform only one specific,
> > well-chosen function on the remote end.  I've been known to use this to
> > auto-mirror directories between machines using rsync, for example.
> 
> http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/ssh-publickey-process