ssh - restricted shell

Juan Sanchez jsanchez at juansanchez.net
Wed Mar 30 17:52:14 PST 2005


Couldn't you put everyone else into the same group, except for the 
outsider?  Then you could make secret directories -rwx.  Directories 
without execute permission cannot be listed.

Regards,

Juan

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Duane Winner wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Does anybody know the best technique to accomplish this:
>
> We have a server that we use for mostly internal development, and run an SSH 
> server.
>
> We have an outsider who we want to allow to ssh into this server and do some 
> work.
>
> However, because he is an outsider, we don't want him roaming around our 
> server, moving, looking, doing, or anything outside of his own home 
> directory.
>
> How can I restrict him to his own home directory?
>
> I thought I ran into instructions once for doing this, but I can't find 
> anything right now.
>
> Or was I thinking of scponly ?
>
> That might do it, except we do need to set him up to to run some scripts 
> within his home directory after he uploads stuff via scp.
>
> Thanks,
> DW
>
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