[scponly] root login disabled

[Sébastien Georget]

Hi,

  I'm trying to sync some servers using scponly/rsync and I want to
preserve permissions accross all hosts.
I created a dedicated user with uid 0 (and scponly as shell) but I got
the following message : "root login denied".

The README says that it is a security check, I don't understant why ?
If root login should be be disallowed, it could be done at the ssh level.

Does someone has a better idea than patching scponly to sync the servers
 preserving perms ?

Thx.
Sébastien