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Date:      Thu, 13 Dec 2001 22:01:19 +0500
From:      "Haikal Saadh" <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com>
To:        "'Rob Andrews'" <rob@cyberpunkz.org>, <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Question about sshd...
Message-ID:  <001601c183f7$cc88e950$69c801ca@warhawk>
In-Reply-To: <20011213102109.A18375@switchblade.cyberpunkz.org>

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I understood that if you *'red out your staff members password using
vipw, and if you generate a keypair for them, they should be able to
login via ssh, but not telnet or the local console.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Rob Andrews
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 9:21 PM
> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org
> Subject: Question about sshd...
> 
> 
> I am wondering if there is a way or if there has been 
> consideration of a way to impliment login permissions based 
> upon user authentication via sshd (openssh 3.0.2)
> 
> The reason I am asking is because I want to force all staff 
> members to login through the system based upon their 
> generated keypairs such as a RSA or DSA keypair.  Users since 
> they have very limited access I am not as worried about an 
> account compromise.  But if a staff users account on a 
> machine is compromised then I at least want someone to have 
> to have worked for it to even get logged into the system.
> 
> I'd heard talk from someone else that they were interested in 
> patching opensshd to do just this.  so you could create a 
> rule in the config for an allowed user and say a 
> 'without-password' option such as there is allowed for root.
> 
> Any ideas?  :)
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> ::::::::::::=================---------------------
> :|Robert Andrews
> :|Cyberpunk Alliance  http://www.cyberpunkz.org
> :|Minneapolis, MN   Email: rob@cyberpunkz.org  Office: 763-535-6392
> :::::::::::::::::::::::::::====================---------------
> ----------
> 
> 


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