Question restricting ssh access for some users only
Jim Hatfield
subscriber at insignia.com
Thu Oct 7 10:29:38 PDT 2004
I've used ssh as a secure telnet up to now but done little else with
it. The FreeBSD machines I look after on our internet-facing network
all have one account which I connect to for administration. I've set
up /etc/hosts.allow on all the machines to only allow ssh from a
limited internal network range.
Now I want to create a new account on one machine which will be
accessible from the Internet as a whole, to be used for tunnelling of
SMTP and POP3. I can't predict what the client IP address will be so I
will have to remove the hosts.allow restriction. Is there any way I
can:
- still prevent connections to my admin user from anywhere except a
restricted set of addresses
- disallow shell access for the new account but still allow tunnelling
I think I can solve the first problem by using a new login class and
an entry in login.conf, but there may be better ways.
I think I can solve the second by giving the new user a shell of
/bin/cat (putting that in /etc/shells) but again there may be a neater
way.
jim
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