On Sunday 06 August 2006 14:08, Mike Williams wrote: > On Sunday 06 August 2006 18:45, fire-eyes wrote: > > I would like to give a user an account, however with zero shell > > abilities. What I am looking to do is give them the ability to set up a > > SOCKS proxy tunnel over SSH, which is done with the -D flag. > > > > I have tried setting the shell to nologin or false, no go. I am not > > interested in setting up a chroot jail for this user. > > > > Any ideas? > > You want the little known extra features of authorized_keys. > > Add command="/usr/bin/sleep",no-pty to the same line as the users key, > before the key itself, i.e. > command="/usr/bin/sleep",no-pty ssh-rsa AAAA...== [EMAIL PROTECTED] > When the user logs in the command will be run, regardless of what the user > asks for, and they'll get no pty so couldn't issue any commands > interactively anyway. > Remember, however long you set sleep to sleep is how long the session will > remain open.
That worked great. That's brilliant, i'd never heard of it! Thanks a lot. Definately a killer tip for the books! -- 99% of politicians make the rest look bad. -- [email protected] mailing list
