From: Rico [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reading the last couple of days of sftp/scp's posts and reading up on > the achives I just wanted to ask.. > > Would it be a bad idea to extend OpenSSH with some extra feaures like: > > 1. In sshd_config - making it possible to provide a sftp/scp only > connection. Like "AllowUsers" having a "SCPOnlyUsers". > > 2. Making it possible to jail some of the SCP only users with another > option like "SCPJailedUsers". > > I am not a developer and I am just asking about if this maybe > is a bad > idea.
It is a fantastic idea. Nick just laid out the process for building and submitting patches, too, so I think your diffs can be sent in any time now... ;) If it was a simplistic task, and had a high chance of not being 100,000 lines worth of spaghetti mess code that lowered the security of OpenSSH, I'd guess it would have probably been implemented already. DS

