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Re: SSH access restrictions



Hello Rudi 

On 21 Oct 2003 at 22:58, Rudi Starcevic wrote:

> Though I'd post something I found on the net about rbash.
> I haven't tested it yet.
> 
> [quote]
> 
> But it's possible to get out from this chroot.
> 
> woockie_at_twoflower:~$ cd ..
> rbash: cd: restricted
> woockie_at_twoflower:~$ vi foo
> 
> in vi:
> :set shell=/bin/sh
> :shell
> woockie_at_twoflower:~$ cd ..
> woockie_at_twoflower:/home$ 
> 
> [end quote]
 
> It's disappointing if it's that easy.
> Still if they do get out and misbehave you could catch them 
> with monitoring.

Our rbash shells don't have access to vi ... or much else! Their path 
is set to "/usr/local/lib/rbash-bin/" and that directory has sym-links to 
a few selected binaries.

Still I don't regard the rbash setup as secure.

Regards

Ian
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