[H-GEN] How safe is SSH on the internet?

Patrick Nichols pat at mutton.dyndns.org
Sun Jun 29 21:11:02 EDT 2003


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On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 10:22:02PM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote:

> 	In particular, there's a couple of daemon accounts, which I could
> tighten a couple of these accounts (changing the user's shell to a
> wrapper shell script for instance), and I'd be interested in knowing
> what methods there are.

Have you looked at AllowGroups and AllowUsers? Would it be simpler 
to only allow ssh access to your user account, sort of like the wheel
group and su.

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Regards,
Patrick.

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