Paul Slootman wrote:

> My suspicions would be NFS (but then I'm not objective  :-)

I can totally share your point of view in a very subjective way.

> Do you mean that without the timeout option, it does work with this
> scponly shell?

Yes, exactly.

> I would expect that "scponly" would imply not being able
> to run any given command: only scp would be permitted.

I can attest that remains possible, at meast rsync is still able to launch another rsync process on the remote host, although I didn't look into how this exactly works, nor what the security consequences are. (improving security was the main reason to use scponly in this case.)


Serge van Ginderachter


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