scp without permitting shell access, possible?

[Rachit Siamwalla]

I did it in a very stupid, but simple way, implement a simple version of
scp through a restricted shell.

Which usually ends up going something like this:

ssh hostname cat file > destfile

where your restricted shell is /bin/cat

Jos Backus wrote:
> 
> [My apologies if this question is deemed inappropriate for this list.]
> 
> Using OpenSSH, is it possible for a program/script to copy files with known
> filenames from a remote server (running sshd), without allowing (interactive)
> ssh access to that server? I.e. ``ssh server ls'' or ``ssh server'' should not
> be possible (for security reasons), but ``scp server:file .'' should.
> 
> Thanks,
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