On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Jim McCloskey wrote: > Can I ask for some advice? > > We've just set up two Slink machines in a graduate student lab. They > have ethernet connections; there is no firewall. Some of the students > want to do all their work in a regular way on these machines and those > students have user accounts. But a number just want to be able to > telnet or ssh to another machine quickly and check email. > > Is there a safe way to set up a `guest' user-account with a publicly > known password?
Read the section "Restricted Shell" in the bash documentation; this might be what you're looking for. In restricted mode, you can control what commands bash can execute, so you could limit them to telnet and ssh. Martin -- Martin Dickopp Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inst. f. Kern- und Teilchenphysik, TU Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany Office ASB E22 Phone +49-351-463-3107 Fax +49-351-463-3114