On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 13:42 -0600, Andrew McNabb wrote: > On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 01:40:51PM -0600, Erik R. Jensen wrote: > > It appears that when using public key authentication with openssh, the > > locked status of an account is ignored. This means I can issue "passwd > > -l", and if the user had setup ssh keys for authentication, they can still > > login. I know there are other ways to further lock an account which I have > > been doing, but I really just want openssh to respect the "!" that gets > > placed in the shadow file when a "passwd -l" is issued. Is there a change > > I can make in /etc/pam.d/sshd to force this check to happen or something I > > am just overlooking? > > > > One of the traditional way to lock an account is to set the shell to > /bin/false. Theoretically there might still be some problem with that, > too, but I can't think of anything.
If you use the form "ssh -l user host command," ssh will run the command without running the shell at all. Thus someone could involve pretty much any command via ssh regardless of the shell setting. > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
