Jail

This blogpost was original posted on [url=http://blog.capitar.com/create-ssh-jail-rsync/]capitar’s blog[/url]. Sometimes you want to allow people to put stuff on your webserver in a secure way, but not give them a shell account. You can use rsync and ssh jail via public key authentication to accomplish this. The public key has to be in the authorized_keys file in the normal home directory of the user (/home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys) when importing the key put the following on the same line as the key, before the public key: