Is ssh not safe?

[Michael Sullivan]

Is a secure web page the "https" thing?  I've thought about it, but I
don't know how to do it or even know where to start.  I'd like to know
how to run shell commands from html or Java....
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: Scot L. Harris <webid at cfl.rr.com>
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: Is ssh not safe?
> Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 17:28:03 -0400
> 
> On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 16:41, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> > --On Saturday, July 24, 2004 3:33 PM -0400 "Scot L. Harris" 
> > <webid at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Very good point.  You should also consider implementing chroot to limit
> > > what the users that login into your network can do and access.  If all
> > > they do is change their passwords you should be able to limit them to
> > > just that command.  I would have to check to see if passwd can be done
> > > from a chrooted environment.
> > 
> > If that's all you need, you don't even need to give them a real shell. Just 
> > make their shell the passwd command with chsh. You could also create a 
> > secure web page for that.
> 
> That's an even better idea.  :)
> -- 
> Scot L. Harris
> webid at cfl.rr.com
> 
> The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody
> appreciates how difficult it was.