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Date:      Tue, 27 Feb 2001 15:10:44 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        "Travis [Admin Team]" <traviso@RapidNet.com>
Cc:        Rob Simmons <rsimmons@wlcg.com>, George.Giles@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ftp access
Message-ID:  <20010227151044.A21523@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102271600160.94022-100000@rapidnet.com>; from traviso@RapidNet.com on Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 04:01:31PM -0700
References:  <20010227145512.A13920@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102271600160.94022-100000@rapidnet.com>

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On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 04:01:31PM -0700, Travis [Admin Team] wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Brooks Davis wrote:
>=20
> > If you do this be sure to keep users from being able to access the syst=
em
> > via ssh.  Otherwise they can just use ssh to spawn a shell for themselv=
es:
> >=20
> > ssh -t <host> /bin/sh
>=20
> 	Course I believe you disable it with a -T doncha? >;)

I'm afraid I don't see your point.  It's true that -T is the opposit of
-t for the ssh client, but that doens't have anything to do with the
fact that any user with a valid username and password can get a shell
via ssh unless you don't allow them to run ANYTHING via sshd.

-- Brooks

--=20
Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE.
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