Re: security and guest accounts
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Jim McCloskey wrote:
> Can I ask for some advice?
>
> We've just set up two Slink machines in a graduate student lab. They
> have ethernet connections; there is no firewall. Some of the students
> want to do all their work in a regular way on these machines and those
> students have user accounts. But a number just want to be able to
> telnet or ssh to another machine quickly and check email.
>
> Is there a safe way to set up a `guest' user-account with a publicly
> known password?
Read the section "Restricted Shell" in the bash documentation; this
might be what you're looking for. In restricted mode, you can
control what commands bash can execute, so you could limit them
to telnet and ssh.
Martin
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