Re: security and guest accounts

1999-11-30 Thread Martin Dickopp
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Ethan Benson wrote: > On 30/11/99 Martin Dickopp wrote: > > >Read the section "Restricted Shell" in the bash documentation; this > >might be what you're looking for. In restricted mode, you can > >control what commands bash can execute, so you could limit them > >to telnet a

Re: security and guest accounts

1999-11-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On 30/11/99 Martin Dickopp wrote: Read the section "Restricted Shell" in the bash documentation; this might be what you're looking for. In restricted mode, you can control what commands bash can execute, so you could limit them to telnet and ssh. I tried this out once, it was interesting, but

Re: security and guest accounts

1999-11-29 Thread Joe Block
Jim McCloskey wrote: > > Can I ask for some advice? > > We've just set up two Slink machines in a graduate student lab. They > have ethernet connections; there is no firewall. Some of the students > want to do all their work in a regular way on these machines and those > students have user acco

Re: security and guest accounts

1999-11-29 Thread Martin Dickopp
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Jim McCloskey wrote: > Can I ask for some advice? > > We've just set up two Slink machines in a graduate student lab. They > have ethernet connections; there is no firewall. Some of the students > want to do all their work in a regular way on these machines and those > stud

Re: security and guest accounts

1999-11-29 Thread claw
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:49:04 -0800 Jim McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a safe way to set up a `guest' user-account with a > publicly known password? The usual method is to set it up in a chroot jail using a restricted shell. -- J C Lawrence Home