1. News, Links, Events and Announcements

See: http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-36.html and http://www.rapid7.com/News/pr021216-ssh.html (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I am trying to ssh into a remote sun server, however I get X11 forwarding error. I have checked sshd_config file and X11 forwarding is enabled. Also xhost command doesnt give any output, it doesnt even return the prompt.I have to Ctrl C out of the situation. any suggestions anyone?? (1 Reply)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I was reading an article on how it is very important to setup a chroot jail to run bind. I can follow what the article says but one thing I am unclear about is now on system boot the BIND process in the chroot jail will start since it the owner will no longer be root but some other user. Can... (1 Reply)

4. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi all, I have a Solaris 10 server with SUN_SSH_1.1 installed. I want to restrict a user via SFTP to only be able to access one directory. I've written a little script in .profile which works perfectly for an ssh login but it appears sftp doesn't read the .profile file so it doesn't work. ... (2 Replies)

5. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I have a simple sandbox program which runs a command as user "nobody" in a chroot jail. It sets resource limits with setrlimit, changes the user id with setuid, changes the root dir with chroot, and then calls exec to execute the command given as command line parameters. It is of course a... (8 Replies)

6. Solaris

Hello all, does anybody knows a procedure to enable an chroot for users using ssh and sftp ? Thanks (1 Reply)

7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I have a developer that needs ssh access to a server to get to a specific directory. I want to restrict them to that directory. I've tried to set their shell as rksh which does jail them but only if they are using ssh from another unix system. If they are using putty or winscp they can still... (2 Replies)

8. Red Hat

Hi I need a specific user to be able to sftp to a server and get files from a specific location. The location is not the users home dir, i don't want the user to be able to view anything else apart from the files in that area. e.g ftp file are is - /logging/phplogs e.g user home is... (1 Reply)

9. Solaris

I'm attempting to setup RSA Authentication for a particular user on two servers. A script runs via crontab, logs into one server and transfers data from the server1 to server2. Another script via cron, runs on server2, connects to server 1 and transfers data to it. However, I'm having issues... (3 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

For some reason, when I try copying my public key to the server, despite it showing as being successful: rob@linux044:~$ ssh-copy-id -i /home/rob/Work/Keys/keys.txt.pub !@#$%.com /usr/bin/ssh-copy-id: INFO: Source of key(s) to be installed: "/home/rob/Work/Keys/keys.txt.pub"... (7 Replies)