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Re: Is ssh not safe?



On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 16:41, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Saturday, July 24, 2004 3:33 PM -0400 "Scot L. Harris" 
> <webid cfl rr com> wrote:
> 
> > Very good point.  You should also consider implementing chroot to limit
> > what the users that login into your network can do and access.  If all
> > they do is change their passwords you should be able to limit them to
> > just that command.  I would have to check to see if passwd can be done
> > from a chrooted environment.
> 
> If that's all you need, you don't even need to give them a real shell. Just 
> make their shell the passwd command with chsh. You could also create a 
> secure web page for that.

That's an even better idea.  :)
-- 
Scot L. Harris
webid cfl rr com

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody
appreciates how difficult it was. 



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