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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to restrict ssh by forced commands but sftp login should be enabled? Post 302762653 by Anil George on Tuesday 29th of January 2013 12:23:13 AM
Old 01-29-2013
My requirement is similar to the 'chroot jail', but not exactly the same.
I have to restrict the ssh-user to execute only one script(wrap_script.sh) and he should not be allowed to login via ssh to a remote server.

eg:-
Code:
ssh ssh-user@hostname wrap_scripts.sh

Once this script is executed, the control has to come back to the client system. The client system should be allowed to connect to the remote server using sftp and he should get the sftp prompt.

eg:-
Code:
sftp ssh-user@hostname
sftp>

The ssh-user should be only restricted if the connection has come through ssh from a particular client system. Else it should be a normal user.

That is the reason I thought of going for the forced commands in the authorization_keys file in the remote system. So when the connection is coming from that particular client, I should be able to restrict access to that. The ssh-user is a generic user that will be used by other client systems to connect to the remote server. But I need to restrict a particular host as mentioned above.
Thanks in advance. Could anyone please advice?

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 01-29-2013 at 02:27 AM.. Reason: code tags
 

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ssh-keysign(1M)                                                                                                                    ssh-keysign(1M)

NAME
ssh-keysign - ssh helper program for host-based authentication SYNOPSIS
ssh-keysign ssh-keysign is used by ssh(1) to access the local host keys and generate the digital signature required during host-based authentication with SSH protocol version 2. This signature is of data that includes, among other items, the name of the client host and the name of the client user. ssh-keysign is disabled by default and can be enabled only in the global client configuration file /etc/ssh/ssh_config by setting Host- basedAuthentication to yes. ssh-keysign is not intended to be invoked by the user, but from ssh. See ssh(1) and sshd(1M) for more information about host-based authen- tication. /etc/ssh/ssh_config Controls whether ssh-keysign is enabled. /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key These files contain the private parts of the host keys used to generate the digital signature. They should be owned by root, readable only by root, and not accessible to others. Because they are readable only by root, ssh-keysign must be set-uid root if host-based authentication is used. ssh-keysign will not sign host-based authentication data under the following conditions: o If the HostbasedAuthentication client configuration parameter is not set to yes in /etc/ssh/ssh_config. This setting cannot be overri- den in users' ~/.ssh/ssh_config files. o If the client hostname and username in /etc/ssh/ssh_config do not match the canonical hostname of the client where ssh-keysign is invoked and the name of the user invoking ssh-keysign. In spite of ssh-keysign's restrictions on the contents of the host-based authentication data, there remains the ability of users to use it as an avenue for obtaining the client's private host keys. For this reason host-based authentication is turned off by default. See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWsshu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Evolving | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ ssh(1), sshd(1M), ssh_config(4), attributes(5) AUTHORS
Markus Friedl, markus@openbsd.org HISTORY
ssh-keysign first appeared in Ox 3.2. 9 Jun 2004 ssh-keysign(1M)
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