On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 03:06:32PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > In some situations, just executing /bin/sh -c <ForceCommand>, > regardless of the command supplied to the sshd(8), certainly is > the best thing to do. In this speacial case, returning an error > message in case of a command mismatch might even be nicer. > But that probably won't warrant adding yet another option to > sshd_config(5).
Actually, this is already implemented. ssh -v somehost: debug1: Remote: Forced command: <ForcedCommand> Of course, this requires someone to go 'hey, what's happening?' and know that ssh -v is useful in this kind of situation. Joachim