Provide only ssh access to a guest user

lothario · 08-02-2009, 03:18 PM

We have a visitor, David.

He wants to ssh david@hishost.com
I want to give David something like a guest account on my system. No GUI access.
So he can login from the command line and my system will immediately initiate ...
ssh david@hishost.com
When that ssh seession is done, I want my system to log him out too.

How can I setup this guest account?

acid_kewpie · 08-02-2009, 03:48 PM

Not a networking question. Moved to Linux - Newbie.

karamarisan · 08-02-2009, 03:54 PM

Why can't he just ssh david@hishost.com?

lothario · 08-02-2009, 04:09 PM

Because David is a visitor:

I have been asked to give him ssh access for his work.
I really don't know him.
This is a temporary situation. He will be gone soon.
I will have to do this again for the next visitor, so I can simply change the visitor's access to "bob@theNextHost.com"
If a visitor decides to use things like "rtorrent", he should not have access to such things on this system.
I want to give the visitor a way out to his own system and not a way in to this system.

repo · 08-02-2009, 04:24 PM

What will he be doing?
What needs to be available?

You could use chroot
http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/...n_Etch_Mepis_7

lothario · 08-02-2009, 04:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by repo

What will he be doing?

He needs secure shell access to his own system.
Upon login, I need to force him into "ssh david@hishost.com"

Quote:

Originally Posted by repo

What needs to be available?

ssh