[hackpgh-discuss] Re: Custom Restricted Shell

  • From: John Lewis <oflameo2@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: hackpgh-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 20:44:45 -0400

This would be good to setup a backup user account for rsnapshot on
remote servers, at least until someone programs rsnapshot to use sudo.


On 03/21/2015 12:49 PM, James Keener wrote:
> SSH can limit the commands a user can run if you want them to run a
> certain command only and not a shell in general
>
> ssh user@host dbdump
>
> would run the dbdump program, but they wouldn't be able to
>
> ssh user@host cat /etc/passwd
>
> because you didn't allow cat
>
> Jim
>
> On 03/21/2015 09:59 AM, John Lewis wrote:
>> Does anybody know how to create a restricted shell? I need to create a
>> restricted shell that is extended with a couple of commands so that I
>> can do database dumping or file sharing using a protocol not supported
>> by rssh without allowing for an interactive login.
>>
>>


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