git-shell is a good choice. And it's well tested. You just set user's login shell to git-shell, then put some script or binary executable at user's $HOME/git-shell-commands/ directory.
-- yegle http://about.me/yegle On Monday, December 3, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Jarry wrote: > Hi Gentoo-users, > > I'm facing this problem: I *have to* allow one non-root user > to shutdown my server remotely (ssh). I know I could create > account for him and add his login into /etc/shutdown.allow but > I do not want to grant him full shell access. > > I thought about adding "/sbin/shutdown -a h now" as his shell > into /etc/passwd so that right after he authenticates himself, > shutdown is called. But I'm not sure something like this is > possible (shutdown must be probably called from shel)... > > Or is there maybe some other way how to create very restricted > account where user could not do anything else but call shutdown? > > Jarry > -- > _______________________________________________________________ > This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! > Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted. > >
