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From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: scp/sftp without interactive shell?
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Ewald Jenisch wrote:
[ ... ]
> Giving the user a shell of "/bin/true" or something similar on the
> target machine is not an option since scp doesn't seem to work in this
> case.
> 
> Any ideas how this could be accomplished?

Take a look at /usr/ports/shells/scponly, or "rsh" for "restricted shells", 
more generally.

-- 
-Chuck