On 12/7/06, Gareth 'bigbro' Eason <bigbro at skynet.ie> wrote:
> Can you contact me (on or off list) regarding how you do this and what
> limited shell technique or software you use, please?
>> I'm interested in doing a similar thing - creating a user account that
> only allows upload of files, but encrypted in transit (so SCP / rsync
> over ssh / SFTP / etc.) - without compromising security of the server
> as a whole.
>> In fact, if anyone has thoughts or suggestions on this, I'd be
> interested in hearing about them. Currently I'm leaning towards a chroot
> per user account, but if there's a better way I'm all ears. (And setting
> up a chroot that supports rsync is a PITA.)
>
I'm currently using SFTP+rssh with a chroot for this sort of thing and
it works well.
To the original poster, a possible solution to your desire to limit
file upload sizes is an iptables rule using the connbytes module.
Cian
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