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Re: how to make Debian less fragile (long and philosophical)



On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 12:15:18AM -0400, Justin Wells wrote:
> By the way, so far as I know, that's an undocumented behavior of 
> sshd that is really annoying. The manpage claims that the client 
> "either requests a shell or execution of a command". So I suppose
> technically it's allowed to invoke the shell and pass the command
> via the -c argument, since "execution of a command" doesn't 
> specifically mention a mechanism, but you really would expect 
> it to just call exec().

If the administrator sets a user up with a restricted shell, he expects
that any login mechanism will use that shell--including ssh.

Mike Stone

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