Information about the package, scponly, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The scponly package is designed for, Restricted shell for ssh based file services.
Package Name:
scponly
Summary:
Restricted shell for ssh based file services
Description:
scponly is an alternative 'shell' 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.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
4.8
Release:
15.el6
Size:
34 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD
Control the scponly package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install scponly
This command will install scponly on the server.
yum remove scponly
This command will un-install scponly on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove scponly, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove scponly
This command will un-install scponly on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove scponly when using the -y flag.
yum update scponly
This command will update scponly to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove scponly, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update scponly
This command will update scponly to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove scponly when using the -y flag.
yum info scponly
This command will show you core information about the scponly package.
yum deplist scponly
This command will show you the dependencies for scponly. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update scponly
This command will check if there is an update waiting on scponly. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.