Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity scp vs. sftp

[Kenneth Loafman]

Michael Terry wrote:
> 2009/11/18 Heiko Baumann <address@hidden>:
>> /tmp/duplicity-scp-9882.sh is a wrapper shell script which limits bandwidth
>> depending on up/download speeds. with duplicity 0.5.18 this works great.
>> but with version 0.6.05 it does not work anymore. and i havent found a way
>> to limit bandwidth with sftp backend......
> 
> I believe there is an --sftp-command argument just like there is an
> --scp-command argument.  So you could use a similar wrapper script, I
> assume.
> 
> Seems like the --scp-command arg is not very useful anymore.

I made the change to sftp-only as a security enhancement.  With OpenSSH
you can chroot sftp, but not scp (have a look in previous list emails).
 I thought it was worth it to just drop scp since it could not be used
in a chrooted environment.

For rate-limiting, look into tcp-wrappers.

...Ken

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