Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 21:22:16 +0300 From: Vlad GALU <vladgalu@gmail.com> To: Volker Kindermann <ml@ps102.de>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question restricting ssh access for some users only Message-ID: <79722fad041007112227c3c241@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20041007180630.GA25130@yem.eng.utah.edu> References: <cvuam0t1l2u7npnigk6oqrlq288hlu0mgn@4ax.com> <20041007195417.430a8b5c@ariel.office.volker.de> <20041007180630.GA25130@yem.eng.utah.edu>
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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,
> >
> >
> > > I've used ssh as a secure telnet up to now but done little else with
> > > it. The FreeBSD machines I look after on our internet-facing network
> > > all have one account which I connect to for administration. I've set
> > > up /etc/hosts.allow on all the machines to only allow ssh from a
> > > limited internal network range.
> > >
> > > Now I want to create a new account on one machine which will be
> > > accessible from the Internet as a whole, to be used for tunnelling of
> > > SMTP and POP3. I can't predict what the client IP address will be so I
> > > will have to remove the hosts.allow restriction.
> >
> > have you considered the "AllowGroups" and "AllowUsers" directives of
> > sshd_config? They should provide exact the functionality that you want.
>
> But what if you have 1000 users? From my understanding you would have
> to add all users to the AllowUsers list.
Or simply add all of them to one of the groups specified in "AllowGroups".
>
> -Mark
>
>
> >
> > -volker
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