Restricted SSH access

[Les Mikesell]

Vladimir Kovacevic wrote:
> Hi!
> I'm working on embeded Fedora on Atmel and have a problem with 
> restricting ssh access for user that log on to system.
> The only privilege I want to give them is executing some programs that I 
> wrote (permit any view on a system directories except /home/user_name).
> I looked in /etc/ssh_config but did't find what I was looking wor. Also,
> tried with assigning a user /bin/bash console with -r (restricted) 
> parameter (set it up on /etc/passwd)
> but then I couldn't log on with putty or WinSCP to system.
> Any ideas for simple solution for my problem?
> 
> P.S. Somebody might ask why would somebody use ssh for that limited 
> access. Answer is that it must be supported, project specifications...
>

If you don't want someone to see the system directories, you have to 
build a chroot environment and keep them there.

http://www.howtoforge.com/chroot_ssh_sftp_fedora7

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   Les Mikesell
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