Hi I have very special needs and i wanted to use rsync over ssh. I don't know if a solution already exists for what i want to do. I want to provide rsync over ssh to my users. Howevern i want to have the following limitations : 1. No shell access 2. Limitting users to their home directories

I was thinking to the folowing solution, but i don't know if it is secure enough : Create a dummy-shell sor ssh login that only allow the rsync --server --sender command. Then i get the path of the wanted files, and i appened it to the home directory of the user. Ex : the user requests /test, i give him : /home/usrname/test Then i uses the realpath function to canonicalize the path and i check that it really begins with /home/usrname to prevent users from getting files outside of their home directory. I execute the rsync command with the new built path...

I think this should work but i would like to know what do you think about security.

If this is ok, i will code the dummy-shell and put it online for those who would like to do similar things...