Erin Sharmahd wrote:
One of the traditional way to lock an account is to set the shell to
/bin/false.  Theoretically there might still be some problem with that,
too, but I can't think of anything.


Can they still use scp with this?  It seems like they would be able to...

I use a handy shell replacement called rssh for this.

        <http://www.pizzashack.org/rssh/index.shtml>

Derek/Goozbach wrote about another technique recently in his GuruLabs blog. It's called scponly:

        <http://www.sublimation.org/scponly/>

(Read Goozbach's stuff: <http://blogs.gurulabs.com/derek/>.)

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