Tunnel-only SSH keys

David Wolfskill david at catwhisker.org
Thu Sep 22 09:22:42 PDT 2005


On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 04:27:18PM +0100, markzero wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I once read somewhere that it's possible to limit SSH pubkeys to
> 'tunnel-only'. I can't seem to find any information about this
> in any of the usual places.
> ...
> Can this be done with OpenSSH? I'd like to try and stay away from
> the complexities of a chrooted-stunnel for now...

See the section "AUTHORIZED_KEYS FILE FORMAT" in the sshd man page.

There is also a discussion of this in the O'Reilly _SSH_ book.

Peace,
david
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