From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 11 22:43:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 362F937B405 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 22:43:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (dialup-209.245.129.110.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.129.110]) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (8.11.5/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f9C5gvd28923; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 22:43:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f9C5gXu02759; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 22:42:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 22:42:33 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Francisco Reyes Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Automating ssh connections so only one command would run. Message-ID: <20011011224233.G293@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20011011233059.F7823-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011011233059.F7823-100000@zoraida.natserv.net>; from lists@natserv.com on Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 11:38:34PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 11:38:34PM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: > I followed several tutorials on how to automate ssh connections, but I > would like to restrict the connection so only scp would run. > I have seen in the past on a magazine two options one can put on the > authorized_keys file: from, command. > > Anyone has an example on how to do this? Basically I am trying to automate > scp, but don't want any other command to run without a passphrase. scp(1) and ssh(1) are not really designed to work this way. Even if you can limit users to scp(1), it is trivial to slip commands through scp(1), $ scp 'remote:somefile;touch /tmp/scp_test' . And check for /tmp/scp_test on the remote machine. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message