Questions[copssh](server)

I'm testing an instance of CopSSH on my local machine to get ready to implement an SSH server that will allow our development team to start using Mercurial over SSH. The CopSSH control panel is a useful GUI to the SSH configuration, but it inserts a ForceCommand directive, depending on what kind of shell access the user is given. Unfortunately, this breaks remote commands.

I can easily edit sshd_config manually, and everything works great. But if I start up the CopSSH control panel at any time, it overwrites the config file, inserting ForceCommand and causing problems.

Is there a way to stop the control panel from doing this? Is there a backup 'default' of sshd_config that it uses to overwrite the current one, or is it hard coded an unchangeable?

I have Windows Server 2003 with CopSSH installed on it ( Cygwin + sshd ). I would like to be able to run a PowerShell script via SSH session command and then use its output. Is there such a capability? How to do it?

I've got a remote server that I can access via SFTP. (Not FTP over SSL. SFTP.)

Periodically, I need to push a few thousand new files to that machine.

How can I:

1. Upload upload these in parallel?
2. Gather statistics, so I can judge the ideal level of parallelization given my particular server/network configuration?

A command line client would be ideal, but a GUI could work as well.

Thank you

I'm currently using COPSSH to tunnel various connections to a remote Windows box and connecting using plink.exe from the PUTTY suite. After connecting directly, I've come to realise that the quality of connection using this setup is appalling. Tunnelled connections appear to get slower and slower. Can anyone recommend secure tunnel software that is more performant than my current setup?

Suppose use can ssh to the server and can execure FTP and connect to other sources, download a virus and execute it.

Is it possible to force user to execute only some known commands?