blocking ssh for a user

jitheshmurali · 05-03-2006, 09:58 AM

Dear friends,
A user(eg:joy) must be able to login to the system locally.But when tried to access that system using ssh for this user(joy) ,the access should be denied. I am using red hat linux 4.
Please give a sulution for this.
thank you.

druuna · 05-03-2006, 10:07 AM

Hi,

Take a look at the DenyUsers directive in /etc/ssh/sshd_config (if that is where red hat stores this file). man sshd_config for details.

Hope this helps.

vimal · 05-05-2006, 12:44 AM

Hello jitheshmurali,

You can use the DenyUsers directive in /etc/ssh/sshd_config to deny a particular user.

ie.. DenyUsers 'name1' 'name2' .....

If you use the 'AllowUsers' directive. then only the users you add here are allowed to login via ssh.

Thanks,,,