Re: disabling local-to-local transfers?

Francois Ouellet <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:55:02 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.network.openssh.devel
Message-ID <8847541.2l3rmUXbR5@dev1>
Le Friday, 24 July 2026, 16:48:28 EDT Samuel Thibault a =E9crit :
> Theo de Raadt, le ven. 24 juil. 2026 14:15:44 -0600, a ecrit:
> > Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > I have never asked for changing the default. I just asked for being a=
ble
> > > to configure it.

Here's a simple solution to your problem, for a bash shell, that doesn't ne=
ed any source change :

mkdir ~/scp-bin
cat > ~/scp-bin/cp <<EOF
#!/bin/sh

echo "no local copy allowed" >&2

exit 1
EOF
chmod 755 ~/scp-bin/cp

alias scp=3D"PATH=3D~/scp-bin:$PATH scp"