RE: Locking down a user

From: Steve McKinney (sjm_at_porter.acadaff.appstate.edu)
Date: 06/27/03

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    To: Striani Mariano <mstriani@petrobrasenergia.com>
    
    

    how would i go about that?

    -Steve

    On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Striani Mariano wrote:

    > What if... you customize a shell to allow only the scp and assign it to the
    > user??
    >
    > -----Mensaje original-----
    > De: Jason K. Boykin [mailto:jboykin@summit-research-corp.com]
    > Enviado el: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 02:29 PM
    > Para: Steve McKinney
    > CC: security-basics@securityfocus.com
    > Asunto: Re: Locking down a user
    >
    >
    > On Wednesday 25 June 2003 01:17 pm, Steve McKinney wrote:
    > > I need to lock down a useer so that they can only ssh in for scp
    > > puposes and stay in a certain directory. I've looked around with google,
    > > but I can't find what I'm looking for. Can someone point me the right
    > > direction, maybe a tutorial that they have found useful?
    > >
    > > Thank you for your time,
    > > -Steve
    >
    > Sounds like you are looking for something refered to as chrooting or
    > jailing.
    >
    > Doing a google search on chroot should turn you up with lots of info. I
    > spent
    > some time doing this last year but have forgotten most of it myself.
    >
    > Im sure there would be another way of doing this with permissions.
    >
    > Good luck!
    >
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