slackware aliases anyone?

[Jude DaShiell]

Those aliases need to be put in your .bash_profile file.  That's the file 
that sets things up on interactive logins.  The .bashrc file is for 
non-interactive logins.  If you want to disable scp and sftp access for 
shell users of your machine all you need do is put a command in each 
account's .bashrc that'll generate text.  The ssh access will still be 
possible but not sftp or scp.  That was a lesson learned the hard way on 
my part. hth.