rsync without a shell

[Federico Voges]

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On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 17:20:12 -0500 (EST), Net Llama! wrote:

>I'm trying to setup rsync over ssh without giving the user a shell
>account.  Unfortunately, setting the user's shell to /bin/false prevents
>the rsync from running, as it fails with this error:
>rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far)
>rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12)
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions?
>

I guess that you need a valid shell so rsync can exec rsync on the
remote host.

There's a project called rssh (http://freshmeat.net/projects/rssh/).
It's no exactly what you need but comes very close.

Basically, it's a shell that restricts just to remote exec of scp
and/or sftp (no interactive shell). 

It shouldn't be to hard to add rsync to the list of allowed commands.
You'll have to do some research on how rsync over ssh works, though.

Bye!


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