From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jan 27 0:29:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mta1.snfc21.pbi.net (mta1.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CECED14D39 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 00:29:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from madscientist@thegrid.net) Received: from remus ([63.193.246.169]) by mta1.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.09.16.21.57.p8) with SMTP id <0FOZ007Q2JE4SX@mta1.snfc21.pbi.net> for freebsd-security@freebsd.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 00:25:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 00:22:03 -0800 From: The Mad Scientist Subject: Re: sshd and pop/ftponly users incorrect configuration In-reply-to: X-Sender: i289861@mail.thegrid.net To: Marc SCHAEFER Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Message-id: <4.1.20000127001817.00938470@mail.thegrid.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:30 AM 1/25/00 +0100, you wrote: >NAME > sshd-restricted-users-incorrect-configuration > >AUTHOR > Marc SCHAEFER > Andreas Trottmann >IMMUNE CONFIGURATIONS > You are immune to this problem if one (or more) of the following > is true: > > - the group(s) where those users belong to is listed in > /etc/ssh/sshd_config or equivalent configuration file as > DenyGroups group1 group2 # etc > (this is the recommended setup) > > - no user which has an account hasn't a shell (he will be able > to do the above, except the root@ IDENT, anyway, if he has a shell) This line is a little confusing to me. Do you mean every user with an account has no shell? What do you mean by account? (pop?) And who is 'he'? -Dean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message