Re: security and guest accounts

On 30/11/99 Martin Dickopp wrote: 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. I tried this out once, it was interesting, but

Re: security and guest accounts

On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Ethan Benson wrote: On 30/11/99 Martin Dickopp wrote: 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.

security and guest accounts

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

Re: security and guest accounts

On Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:49:04 -0800 Jim McCloskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a safe way to set up a `guest' user-account with a publicly known password? The usual method is to set it up in a chroot jail using a restricted shell. -- J C Lawrence Home:

Re: security and guest accounts

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

Re: security and guest accounts

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.