which server to offer files to friends

[Sven Aluoor]

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Pedro Timóteo <pedro at dehumanizer.com> wrote:
>> * ssh-login: I do not want to give friends from untrusted computer
>> ssh-access to my machine.
>>
>
> You can give scp access without shell access, using rssh:

I recommend you scponly (scponly is packaged by Ubuntu/Debian devs in universe)

from http://www.sublimation.org/scponly/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

scponly is an alternative 'shell' (of sorts) for system administrators
who would like to provide access to remote users to both read and
write local files without providing any remote execution priviledges.
Functionally, it is best described as a wrapper to the tried and true
ssh suite of applications.
A typical usage of scponly is in creating a semi-public account not
unlike the concept of anonymous login for ftp. This allows an
administrator to share files in the same way an anon ftp setup would,
only employing all the protection that ssh provides. This is
especially significant if you consider that ftp authentications
traverse public networks in a plaintext format.

cheers Sven