On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 12:03:52PM +0200, J Horacio MG wrote: > Hi, > > I know of the existance of a restricted shell, though I'm not sure > whether this is what I'm after. Nope, correct me if I'm wrong, but you just want a way to remotely login to your computer.
> > In time, I'll be moving away to another country, and I intend to leave > my home computer with the current users configured, ie. root (of > course), my sister, and I. I'd also like to create a "guest" user with > some little (hence restricted) access. Is rsh what I should be looking > for? I'd say to use telnetd, because there are some nice telnet programs out there. But, telnet is insecure, and by default the only way to log in as root on telnet is to login as a normal use and 'su' to root. > > Also, I'll need to access the computer both as root and as normal user > remotely, via the inet, as I cannot give my sister root control (good > ...! it took me a lot to convince her to give up windozing, then > customize her account and installing some nice looking programs, etc... > sadly enough, mutt doesn't offer a flowers bouquet with each new mail, > so I had to give her XCMail ;-) ); > is, in this case, ssh what I should be installing? If you can, do ssh and grab the unix version or the freeware windows program 'Tera Term Pro'. If not, telnet is a good second choice, because it comes standard on all Windoze machines (you didn't mention what kind of computer you will be connecting from). -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
