[Freebsd-security] Re: Multi-User Security

[Crist J. Clark]

On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 11:38:55PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> On Wed, 19 May 2004, Dan Rue wrote:
> 
> >You obviously havn't tried to chroot scponly users.. _that's_ the tricky
> >part.  Especially if you want it to scale up beyond a handful of users.
> >If i'm wrong - fill me in i'd love to hear how to do it.
> 
> Have you considered using ~/.ssh/authorized_keys to restrict the account 
> from tty access? This would allow you to do commands (like scp) without 
> the risk of the user getting an actual shell.

  $ ssh host /bin/sh

You don't need a tty to get an interactive shell.
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