restrict ssh access

[D Hill]

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 at 14:30 -0500, pauls at utdallas.edu confabulated:

> --On Friday, April 25, 2008 16:41:07 +0000 D Hill <d.hill at yournetplus.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 at 09:30 -0700, cswiger at mac.com confabulated:
>> 
>>> On Apr 25, 2008, at 6:46 AM, Geert Geurts wrote:
>>>> I've got a server running a ssh server, I want to enable ssh for the use
>>>> of sftp by a group of users, and limit their ssh access to just allow
>>>> running passwd so they can change their default password. What whould be
>>>> the best/easiest way to acomplish this, or something similiar?
>>> 
>>> I wonder what would happen if you gave them a shell of 
>>> "/usr/bin/passwd"...?
>>> :-)
>> 
>> That should work. I just tested. When an ssh connection is made, it 
>> executes
>> passwd. As soon as the password is changed, the ssh connection was closed:
>>
>>    %ssh -l asdf 192.168.1.50
>>    Password:
>>    ...
>>    Changing local password for asdf
>>    Old Password:
>>    New Password:
>>    Retype New Password:
>>    Connection to 192.168.1.50 closed.
>
> Should make for some fascinating experiences with sftp.  :-)

I believe the connecton would just close. Somehow I missed that sftp part :-(