Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 07 Oct 2004 14:39:35 -0400
From:      Mark Stanislav <KryptoBSD@uncompiled.com>
To:        Mark Ogden <ogden@eng.utah.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Question restricting ssh access for some users only
Message-ID:  <3C735693-1890-11D9-B63E-000A95CD9660@uncompiled.com>
In-Reply-To: <20041007183400.GA25339@yem.eng.utah.edu>
References:  <cvuam0t1l2u7npnigk6oqrlq288hlu0mgn@4ax.com> <20041007195417.430a8b5c@ariel.office.volker.de> <20041007180630.GA25130@yem.eng.utah.edu> <79722fad041007112227c3c241@mail.gmail.com> <20041007183400.GA25339@yem.eng.utah.edu>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

On Oct 7, 2004, at 2:34 PM, Mark Ogden wrote:

> Vlad GALU on Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:22:16PM +0300 wrote:
>> On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 12:06:30 -0600, Mark Ogden <ogden@eng.utah.edu> 
>> wrote:
>>> Volker Kindermann on Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 07:54:17PM +0200 wrote:
>>>> Hi Jim,
>>>>
>>>>
>>> But what if you have 1000 users? From my understanding you would have
>>> to add all users to the AllowUsers list.
>>

Why can't you just make a script to do that?

>>     Or simply add all of them to one of the groups specified in 
>> "AllowGroups".
>
> Yes I do understand how that would work. Yet me better explain what we
> would like to do: We have over 9000 users and about 100 different
> groups. We would like to allow root ssh login to our machines but only
> from one or two machines. We like to have root login to be able to run
> remote commands to all our machines. So is there a way to limit roots
> login from one or two machines?

Why not just let them use 'sudo' or better yet, just give them access 
to become root after they login to their initial shell?

-Mark

>
> -Mark
>
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to 
> "freebsd-security-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3C735693-1890-11D9-B63E-000A95CD9660>