[scponly] compare and contrast - scponly vs. rssh ?

[wby oblyr]

There is no philosophical objection to supporting rdist or cvs in scponly; I think we/I just havent gotten around 
to this yet.  The subversion and rsync support was added largely due to requests such as yours, and/or submitted 
patches.

Has anyone on the list looked at cvs or rdist yet?  If it isnt a big deal to support these, I'll consider them for 
the next release, which I will send email about shortly.


joe




user wrote this message on Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 11:37 -0400:
> 
> I am looking at both scponly and rssh as candidates for restricting
> certain users to scp/rsync only, etc.
> 
> Does anyone have any comments about one of these packages vs. the other?
> 
> I notice that both of them support chroot jails ... the only difference I
> can really see is that:
> 
> - scponly supports subversion and unison, but not rdist or cvs
> - rssh supports rdist and cvs, and not subversion or unison
> 
> (gftp and winscp are done in sftp mode, so theoretically they both support
> both of those)
> 
> Both apps seem to have responded to the arbitrary execution advisory.
> 
> It looks like scponly is more actively maintained, and there is more user
> support.
> 
> -----
> 
> I am leaning toward scponly because there is more user support and it is
> more actively maintained.  On the other hand, cvs and rdist are more
> common de facto standards than unison and subversion ... so I feel like
> the average person is served better by rssh.
> 
> Any comments ?  Especially, I am curious as to why unison and subversion
> were specifically added over rdist and cvs ... a philosophical choice ?
> 
> Thanks alot.
> 
> 
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