How to set up ssh-only user with minimal privileges?

[Petter Adsen]

I have a short script running from cron on a server running 14.10, that
creates a small backup of essential system files. What I want to do is
set up this script to scp the tarball to another, remote system.

So, I need to create an account on the remote system and set up keys,
but I want this account to only be able to deposit the archive
somewhere, and not be able to get to a shell or do anything else.

Is it enough to set the shell for the user to something
like /bin/false? Will that user still be able to deposit the file via
scp? Is there anything else I can do to lock down that account?

Petter

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